tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718921294435140810.post4339984031577989381..comments2023-07-14T00:50:59.579-07:00Comments on The Born-again Sysadmin: Oracle dumps Itanium. -1 for HP-UX, +1 for IntegrityOlivier S. Massehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10917993970005588091noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718921294435140810.post-67589939783795153522011-04-05T20:07:21.814-07:002011-04-05T20:07:21.814-07:00I strongly agree with a push to hit oracle back an...I strongly agree with a push to hit oracle back and get them out of the picture. Their actions are not anywhere near in the best interest of customers and Intels Itanium announcement strongly opposes Oracles motivation for removing support. Itanium has had a rough time since it was announced, but it is finally becoming an extremely mature product. HP's blade system is extremely flexible, modular, and powerful. With just a small inventory of parts, HP can ship anywhere from a 2 core to 32 core systems. The memory is now industry standard and the Itanium chipset is the same as high end xeon. Itanium just got cheap. Last time I have heard a product brief from HP, they say it is two socket rack mount, 2-8 socket blade, or superdome 2 in the future. <br />As far as databases are concerned, well, it can really be painful to move. Companies will look at a solution that will keep them from having them to repeat the process in the next few years. If HP had a DB, they would go there. DB2 seems like a nice robust move, but the threat that IBM will pull an Oracle is scary. The good thing is, Oracle support is not gone and we have some time to well... watch. People should see the light and hit Oracle back in the only place they care about, their profits right now (not over time). They might reconsider. After all, its not 1990. We have great hardware now and other solid database software that can solve our problems that are... not Oracle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718921294435140810.post-52841088452268375062011-03-25T11:00:32.424-07:002011-03-25T11:00:32.424-07:00This is a complicated issue..
Microsoft is unlikel...This is a complicated issue..<br />Microsoft is unlikely to return to Itanium, there just isn't the volume to warrant it.<br /><br />The loss of enterprise RDMS from superdome hurts a great deal, but its worse than that.. with no oracle middleware support, there will be no Itanium SOA clients or other tools, significantly hurting enterprise connectivity.<br /><br />This in conjunction with Gartner surveys basically saying "when Intel can end its contract with HP it will" is driving software developers away from the platform<br /><br />Doesn't matter how good the future of Itanium is if there is no software to run on it.<br /><br />I firmly believe in HPs commitment to Itanium and HP-UX, but others have to offer the same commitments, HP cannot stand alone.Brian Weatherillhttp://www.weatherills.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718921294435140810.post-43573697573766711962011-03-25T09:17:30.778-07:002011-03-25T09:17:30.778-07:00I was an Oracle database admin for a long time. I...I was an Oracle database admin for a long time. I decided to look into mysql and postgresql. I found postgresql to be a natural fit and moved a lot of the medium, and smaller project to it. It worked very well. I encourage others to evaluate all of their options. <br /><br />People are going to have to choose to embrace their O/S+hardware or their RDBMS. I for one walked away from both and have no regrets. :)UIDZerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00955824755453845257noreply@blogger.com