Re: Oracle and Linux

Avi Miller <avi.miller@gmail.com> writes:

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.

Cool. I remember when Symbolics were doing this (for Lisp, obviously, not RDBMS). I didn't know Oracle was even SELLING sparc, let alone making new hardware revisions. Of course, I'm not their target market ;-)