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Oracle To Sell Database Hardware

Posted by timothy on from the new-ventures dept.

qazsedcft writes "In a move the company is billing as its first foray into the hardware business, Oracle Corp. said Wednesday it will begin selling server computers that come with its database software pre-installed."

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  1. Re:Core business by Shotgun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could be that you have a limited view of what their core business is. Is it selling databases? Or, could it be selling database services?

    For a given number of dollars, what is the optimum hardware to run a database? How much memory of what type vs how much/many hard disks? Which OS? Which drivers?

    Selling the hardware will let them present an entire solution that is optimized for the one thing that they want to do...serve data as quickly as possible. The customer is presented with an appliance that will offer the maximum database performance for a given dollar point. Well, at least as optimized as anything can be with an Oracle Database stamp on it.

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