On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Avi Miller <avi.miller@gmail.com> 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/