After two days and two keynote sessions by Charles Phillips and Thomas Kurian nothing major came out other than Oracle Beehive. Going into the third day, i was wondering what Larry will come up with. I was speculating about new acquisitions or Fusion Apps update or How Oracle is doing so great even in this economy. To the contrary its all about Database and Performance.
To my surprise and almost all of the audience he has unveiled Oracle's First Hardware product " HP Oracle Database Machine" , Oracle Exadata Storage Server. He has mentioned that it has been in R & D with HP for three years. Quite evident from the presentation that he is going after data warehousing companies Teradata and Netezza. I was wondering what might have been going through the minds of these competitors as soon as announced this product. He did add humour to his announcement by comparing this to 1400 'iPods'. After the Keynote there were some impressive demo sessions conducted demonstrating the capabilities
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