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Re: [News] Oracle Sets Focus on GNU/Linux Clusters

On 2008-03-26, Subway steel <foo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:1576789.7ZihCj4M11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Oracle offers clustering for Linux
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Oracle is breaking out the Linux clustering component of its Oracle RAC 
>> (Real
>> | Application Clusters) package and offering it to customers of its 
>> Unbreakable
>> | Linux support program for Linux users.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/26/oracle-linux_1.html
>>
>
> Certainly Oracle is not setting its FOCUS on linux clusters. Being a RDBMS 
> system their focus is going to remain on databases.

   Oracle certainly is. 

   Those Linux clusters are meant to run their expensive RDBMS of course.

   However, they have also exposed their clustering API so that anyone
that wants to can make their own (non-database) applications cluster aware. 

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