Oracle, Cloudera Team Up On Hadoop Appliance

LinuxScribe writes "Oracle has announced a new Big Data Appliance, which will feature Cloudera's Hadoop, shiny hardware, and a price tag that could be more affordable than commodity servers. But Oracle's new Cloudera partner should heed the lessons of Red Hat and what it means to partner with Oracle."

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[masternerdguy]

Once you start along the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

Embrace and suffocate ?? Anyone ?

[nomad63]

Ellison's strategy sounds too much like, that of Redmond's finest. Problem is, Oracle is getting too big in the datacenter landscape. He has oracle, which is the de-facto database for most any organization who wants accountability and have money to spend. He has hardware (SUN) which still has the biggest footprint in data centers after X86. He has Oracle Linux which is, for all intents and purposes, Red-Hat EL. The only thing he did not have was something to handle large, unstructured data, likes of TereData and Cloudera/Hadoop is serving it on a silver platter. Who is going to stop the Oracle wave, I don't know. Oracle is becoming a monopoly, much worse than Google or Microsoft in my opinion. Where are the regulators who blocked the AT&T and T-Mobile merger (Kudos to them by the way). We need them right here, right now.

Re:Embrace and suffocate ?? Anyone ?

[TheRealMindChild]

He has oracle, which is the de-facto database for most any organization who wants accountability and have money to spend

I don't know what universe you live in, buddy, but a few big companies running a single oracle database does NOT make it "de-facto". Of all of my professional experience, along with all of the colleagues I've had, EVERYONE steers clear of Oracle. I've seen a single Oracle database in production at Heinz/Del Monte, and there was a "shadow" database in MS SQL Server, synched daily, because no one wanted to deal with the Oracle database server (It's old... NULL and '' are equal?!?!).

Re:Embrace and suffocate ?? Anyone ?

[Amouth]

ERP's are more and more relying on Oracle - i know SAP uses it almost exclusively.. sure they say they support others but in reality it is far harder to get it running well on anything but Oracle that it should just be considered what is supported.

As markets grow and products get refined - the company that is most efficient survives (ignore government driven ones on that). And ERP's are what will allow them do to it. as more ERP's move to Oracle - more companies will be moved into Oracle..

While you may say a single Oracle DB in production doesn't mean much.. it isn't about the number of instances or even the size - but the value to the company of the information it stores in that DB. In your case i'd have to ask.. what information was so valuable that it was worth setting up and MSSQL instance JUST to shadow it to make available? Oracle is working to get the FI and CO data locked up - after that other things will have to attach to it and eventually will live inside it..

Nonsense, no such "Red Hat Lesson"

[iggymanz]

Oracle's Linux is Red Hat Linux, they add some GPL licensed improvements. Anyone is free to use those, that includes Red Hat. I work as migrator/integrator/architect for a VAR with clients some of whom have IT budgets over $1 billion, I've not yet seen anyone use Oracle's Linux to run Oracle's wares (or anything else, for that matter), all choose Red Hat (some Centos too)

Re:Nonsense, no such "Red Hat Lesson"

[C3ntaur]

Examples, please. Can you give us at least a few links to these in Red Hat's Bugzilla?