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Oracle To Halve Core Count In Next Sparc Processor
angry tapir writes "Oracle will halve the number of cores in its next Sparc processor and instead improve its single-thread performance, a weak area for the chip but one that's important for running large databases and back-end applications. The next Sparc chip on Oracle's roadmap, the T4, will have eight cores on each chip, down from 16 in the current Sparc T3."
I don't think losing some grumpy OpenOffice and OpenSolaris users qualifies as "everyone has already decided to move away from Oracle". Java will be used for a long time to come, and has big time penetration in the enterprise world, as does Oracle's database offerings. And while I agree that "cores" is a buzz word, I'm not so sure at that level it's all down to the quality of marketing. We're talking very big customers who in a lot of cases have very specific needs, and tailoring your hardware to fit with the market your serving isn't a dumb thing to do.
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I wasn't aware the Alpha was that bad. I thought it was simply that the benefit of the processors wasn't great enough to convince companies to move from the much cheaper x86 platform. I saw a couple of Alpha desktops and they were pretty impressive.
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Uhhh...how EXACTLY is "Oracle ruining" anything at all? They are simply going to halve the cores and hopefully give single threads a serious kick in the ass. It is just as I said here when everyone thought Oracle was gonna kill SPARC and Solaris: Oracle is gonna offer a "top to bottom" IBM style stack, with a custom SPARC chip and a stripped down Solaris both optimized for running an Oracle DB with high throughput.
Frankly I think it is a damned good business move and will probably make old Larry another mountain of money. It was pretty obvious that Sun with their flip flopping all over the place simply couldn't figure out how to make money with what they had, and old Larry took one look and figured he did. Considering how many enterprises run Oracle DB, and how PHBs like having only a single vendor to deal with, where is the bad? It is just business 101: buy a business that is floundering, get rid of the dead weight, and the revitalize the good parts. I have NO doubts that in three years or less Oracle will be THE DB to run in large and small enterprises, with a custom setup that will be easy to deploy and have incredible throughput. So where is the bad?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.