Larry Ellison Keynote – Oracle Openworld September 24, 2008
Posted by grumpydba in Oracle Openworld.Tags: keynote, Larry Ellison, Openworld
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What a line, it was about 1/2 mile long, around the front of Moscone North, down the side of the Metreon and in front of the Yerba Buena Gardens, all to get in and see the big man himself.
Safra is out now previewing the partnership with HP, which I know pretty well. Ann Livermore, EVP for HP is out to speak on the partnership with Oracle. HP is now over 300,000 employees with the purchase of EDS (though I hear quite a few will be laid off in the next three years). HP is now #2 as a services company only to Big Blue itself, IBM.
Ann is going over the move of HP from 80+ data centers to 6 and 6000 applications to 1600 and have reduced data center operations to 2% of revenue. Cost, size and the greening of IT is a cost for everyone, but I have been working with HP Blade Servers (c3000 and c7000) for some time now and I am quite impressed.
Intermission and I now know why they didn’t bring the Oracle/BMW racing boat into the Moscone Center this year, the new one is an ultra fast and huge hydrofoil tri-maran.
Raw Iron part deux – Larry is up now and talking about the storage subsystems bandwidth problem that is happening even now. Oracle is going into the hardware business, but not alone, building the Exadata server with HP. 12TB of raw storage, 8 cores (dual quad-core), 2 1GB Infiniband pipes per server and moved the parallel query software into the firmware of the disk drive. So he is creating a storage grid to work with a database grid. This is great for DW or datamart apps, but I am not sure how this will help OLTP and OLAP applications, no data as of today. While it is immediately available today, but only on 32bit Linux. I have see this before and it drives me crazy, 64-bit x86 is the norm now, why is Oracle developing directly on 64bit?
Larry and Mark Hurd are speaking together in a mutual admiration society. I should be nicer, Mark Hurd had done a really good job turning HP around and taking it from a company that had only one profitable division (printers) to a thriving company. Larry, he goes without saying, arrogant, sure, but one of the best forward thinkers I have ever seen, I sure wish I had kept my stock from the 90′s in Oracle that I purchased when I was am employee! That is all for the final keynote of the session, I am off to give my first presentation now.
