There's no way it's a reconfiguration. The db side may be oracle but it's built new from the ground up. Too bad Kevin Closson doesn't hang around on this list anymore but his blog has all the info. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith Moore Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:39 AM To: Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle Exadata Machine We briefly looked at Netezza awhile back. The price is in the $1 million range. I think it would have been a good fit but for whatever reason we could not get permission to do a trial. For what it's worth, I think Neteeza has a better architecture for maximum raw performance for data warehouse queries. The customized hardware is built for that while Oracle's architecture is mostly a reconfiguration of existing Oracle features such as RAC along with new hardware. On the other hand, Netezza doesn't have the Oracle standard features such as PL/SQL, some of the indexing capabilities, etc. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l