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Audience Learns Where Oracle Will Focus Its Attention

Writing in eWeek Europe about the audience reaction to the presentation made by Oracle executives to 500 Sun customers and partners in London, Peter Judge assessed the response positively, saying, “The most surprising thing about the event was the complacency. Many of the delegates suggested that this merger, billed as one of the most cataclysmic ever (in a good way or a bad way), might simply lead to business as usual, with the products and support coming from the usual partners and executives, and the roadmap continuing.”

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Partners to Resell Sun Oracle Database Machines, Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers

Oracle announced a new partner program allowing Oracle and Sun channel partners to sell the Sun Oracle Database Machine and Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server. Revealed during the Oracle Open World conference, this program requires partners to belong to the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) and hold a valid full use distribution agreement to resell the Exadata products, the company said.

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Oracle Launches Exadata Partner Program

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 brought Sun executives and technologies to the center stage during the five-day event held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Sun co-founder Scott McNealy made the final keynote on day one of the conference to a packed Hall D Moscone North. He reflected on the top 10 innovations from Sun, and the technologies that will get even more funding from Oracle following the acquisition. Following McNealy on stage, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said combining Oracle and Sun’s technology would let Oracle “do things neither company would be able to do by themselves.”

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Oracle White Paper Explains Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine

In the newly released 29-page white paper by Oracle, the company introduces the Exadata product family: Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Sun Oracle Database Machine. The paper examines the Exadata architecture and includes information on the database server software, enterprise manager plug-in for Exadata, software, smart scan processing, I/O resource management and accelerated performance with Exadata, and Exadata storage virtualization.

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First Database Machine for OLTP

Sun and Oracle introduced the first database machine for online transaction processing (OLTP) called the Sun Oracle Database Machine or Oracle Exadata Version 2. It is based on Sun hardware, including FlashFire technology, along with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software Release 11.2. Designed to significantly speed up OLTP, data warehousing, and mixed database workloads, the companies claim this latest version is twice as fast as Version 1 for data warehousing.

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