Oracle Touts Linux Support
BOSTON - Oracle Corp. Vice President of Marketing Rene Bonvanie on Wednesday opened the Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo 2002 by demonstrating an "unbreakable" eight-node cluster running the company's Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Cluster) technology on top of Linux.
With four database servers and four application servers powered up, Bonvanie flipped off various nodes to demonstrate the near-instantaneous redistribution of resources to functioning nodes that is enabled by RAC technology.
Besides Oracle's familiar claims of unbreakability, Bonvanie took pains to point out the cost benefit of running Oracle on Linux compared with purchasing $50 million IBM mainframes on which to run the free open-source operating system. The hardware for the cluster system set up for the show, his assistant pointed out, cost $3,000 at the most.
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