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McNealy and Ellison Reflect on Sun Technologies Oracle Launches Exadata Partner Program October 14, 2009, Volume 140, Issue 2
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. Hinting at the pending Oracle acquisition, he commented on his sweater saying, "I hope you like my Oracle -- this was the closest thing I could find in red...well we're not quite there yet. So it's kind of Oracle maroon at this point." According to reports from ChannelWeb, Oracle OpenWorld blog, and Sun Technology Evangelist Arun Gupta, McNealy offered up his traditional top 10 list. The first entitled "The Top 10 Signs Engineers Have Gone Wild" referred to strange inventions in McNealy's view. "...sometimes, engineers get a little out there. Sometimes product marketing is not totally in control and sometimes engineers lose their way," he said. The list included a thumb drive that looks like Sushi, a bra that doubles as a gas mask and Windows 7. Then, he reflected on the top 10 innovations from Sun. He summarized them as this:
"But the one innovation that I'm most proud of is going to work everyday with my employees and going home every night saying, we kicked butt, had fun, didn't cheat, loved our customers and we changed computing forever. And that's my favorite innovation of all time," he said. During his speech, McNealy explained why SPARC, Solaris, MySQL, and Java are here to stay. Joining McNealy on stage was VP and Sun Fellow James Gosling, who talked about Java and Oracle. See the video The Gospel of Java According to James that McNealy played as an introduction. Gosling commented, "I've never worked for a software company, so it'll be an adventure," with McNealy replying, "They won't be a software company after we get done with them." Also making an appearance with McNealy was Sun Systems EVP John Fowler, who pointed out that his team had been working with Oracle for decades building optimized systems. Fowler also announced that the two companies were number one in all seven key commercial benchmarks. "It's dazzling thinking of all the innovations that have come from Sun over the last couple of decades," Ellison said, taking the stage after McNealy. He said combining Oracle and Sun's technology would let Oracle "do things neither company would be able to do by themselves." Oracle executives have said its acquisition of Sun will allow Oracle to develop complete systems, from hardware, up through the operating system and middleware, to applications. Backing up McNealy on the relative permanency of some Sun technologies, Ellison reiterated plans to spend more on developing SPARC, Solaris and MySQL than Sun currently does. He also dismissed worries that MySQL would be spun off, arguing that the open-source database and the Oracle flagship database compete in very different markets. "We hope this removes some of the uncertainty," Ellison said. During the first day of the conference, 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. Partners must belong to the Oracle PartnerNetwork and hold a valid full use distribution agreement to resell the Exadata products, the company said. "This is not only a commitment to our partners, but also we believe the channel has the capability to drive this product into new markets for us," said Judson Althoff, senior vice president of worldwide channels and alliances, in a press briefing at the Oracle OpenWorld conference. Plans are for a roll out of the program over the next several months. Oracle currently is recruiting ISVs to develop applications that run on the Exadata platform, and is seeking solution providers that can build implementation services around the Exadata systems and develop business intelligence and data warehousing practices, as well as expertise in such vertical industries as financial services, communications, health care and the public sector. Customers who have chosen the Oracle Exadata V2 include Amtrak, Allegro Group, Automobile Association of the UK, Banca Transilvania, CTC, Garanti Bank, Generale de Sante, Giant Eagle, HISCOM (Hokuriku Coca Cola), Integrated Health Information Systems Pte Ltd/National Healthcare Group, Singapore, KnowledgeBase Marketing, Loyalty Partner Solutions, M-Tel, MTN Group, Nagase, NS Solutions, NTT Data, OK Systems, Philippines Savings Bank, Research in Motion, SoftBank Mobile, Screwfix, Thomson Reuters, True Corporation Plc, TUI and Yamazaki Baking. "We saw significant improvements in the tests we did on Exadata. The minimum improvement was 27x with an average of 470x improvement on the queries we tested compared to our current system," commented Mark Win, director, Business Intelligence, Integrated Health Information Systems Pte Ltd/National Healthcare Group, Singapore. "This was achieved with no tuning and after removing all indexes. In fact, eliminating indexes is going to save us on half the disk capacity." More Information
Access to other Oracle OpenWorld Keynotes Sun Oracle Database Machine with Sun FlashFire Technology
Oracle OpenWorld Keynote: Scott & Larry - perspective from Ben Rockwood
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