Oracle and former Sun executives such as John Fowler, who is now lead systems development at Oracle, pledged to continue investing in Sun technologies. Specifically, Oracle plans to accelerate the rollout of next-generation Sun processors that Oracle will need to compete against integrated servers from companies such as Cisco and Hewlett-Packard that rely on high-end Xeon processors from Intel. Those multi-core processors will all be optimized to run virtual machine software that comes bundled with Sun operating systems.
As part of that effort, Oracle is bringing together the two companies' virtual machine technologies to create a family of virtualization products for Sparc and X86 systems and, for the first time, extend Oracle’s virtual machine technology out to the desktop. The Oracle VM technology is based on the open source Xen virtual machine.
Fowler also said that Oracle will focus heavily on improving application performance by investing heavily in flash memory and low-cost disk technologies at the storage level. Those investments will lead to performance improvements in orders of magnitude over what’s available today using an integrated file system that simplifies the management of the overall system.
On the software front, Oracle made it very clear that Sun products and technologies are the junior partner. Oracle will continue to support a host of Glassfish middleware software that Sun developed, but those products will largely be positioned at the departmental level, while Oracle products and technologies serve as the “strategic” platform for the enterprise.
The open source MySQL database will continue to be developed within a dedicated Oracle open source division within Oracle that manages the company’s efforts around Linux and the Oracle virtual machine offering. OpenOffice will also be maintained as a separate division, and Oracle pledged to deliver a cloud implementation of OpenOffice that will compete with similar services from Google, IBM and Microsoft.
Source : http://www.ctoedge.com/content/oracle-outlines-strategic-technology-plan-sun
As part of that effort, Oracle is bringing together the two companies' virtual machine technologies to create a family of virtualization products for Sparc and X86 systems and, for the first time, extend Oracle’s virtual machine technology out to the desktop. The Oracle VM technology is based on the open source Xen virtual machine.
Fowler also said that Oracle will focus heavily on improving application performance by investing heavily in flash memory and low-cost disk technologies at the storage level. Those investments will lead to performance improvements in orders of magnitude over what’s available today using an integrated file system that simplifies the management of the overall system.
On the software front, Oracle made it very clear that Sun products and technologies are the junior partner. Oracle will continue to support a host of Glassfish middleware software that Sun developed, but those products will largely be positioned at the departmental level, while Oracle products and technologies serve as the “strategic” platform for the enterprise.
The open source MySQL database will continue to be developed within a dedicated Oracle open source division within Oracle that manages the company’s efforts around Linux and the Oracle virtual machine offering. OpenOffice will also be maintained as a separate division, and Oracle pledged to deliver a cloud implementation of OpenOffice that will compete with similar services from Google, IBM and Microsoft.
Source : http://www.ctoedge.com/content/oracle-outlines-strategic-technology-plan-sun
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