On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Avi Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > It's interesting you say that about Sun, because from Oracle's perspective, > we've finally made the hardware division profitable (something Sun wasn't > actually able to do). Our Engineered Systems (Exadata, Exalogic, > Exalytics, Virtual Compute Appliance, SPARC SuperCluster, Big Data > Appliance and others) are fantastic examples of the sheer power of having > hardware and software fully integrated by a single vendor. The new SPARC > M7 chip was only possible by combining the RDBMS team with our hardware > designers so that we could create a chip that could offload RDBMS > functions into silicon.
A lecture about SPARC hardware would be of great interest to many people. While the number of LUV members who use SPARC hardware is quite small the number who have a hobby interest in computer architecture is large. That M7 sounds particularly interesting. > And the flip side is the MySQL has gotten exponentially better since we > bought Sun, with releases being fully tested and certified prior to > release. We have had opportunities to hear reports about MySQL that represent different positions. I think it would be good to hear an Oracle employee give their side of the story. > The OpenJDK has become fully open and the reference JDK > completely. VirtualBox is fantastic. We've ported Dtrace to Linux. Why would we want Dtrace on Linux? Could be a good LUV talk in that. > We keep > improving btrfs and OCFS2 in mainline. We've brought significant > improvements to NFS (particularly our mainline work on pNFS and NFS over > RDMA). We did a lot of the IPv6 work for NFS too. OCFS2 and NFS have good potential for LUV talks. Is Oracle still doing much with BTRFS? Last I heard Chris Mason worked for Facebook. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
