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Report Back: Greater reliability and performance can cost less
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Brett Haggard
While at Oracle's annual OracleWorld conference (held in Copenhagen this year) I managed to take in the keynote address from Larry Ellison, the man at the helm of the database company, who is touted as one of the most entertaining and visionary icons in the IT world. Never known to steer away from controversy, Ellison slated the usual list of competitors and talked extensively about the work Oracle has done in the Linux space to deliver higher performance, higher reliability and reduced cost. Interestingly enough, alliances with other vendors were not mentioned much.
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Report Back: Intel addresses criticisms with Itanium II
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Russell Bennett and Brett Haggard
64-bit computing, mostly using Risc architecture, has been around for some time already, but it was not until the launch of Intel's Itanium range of 64-bit processors that this technology really came into its own. Yes, Sun Microsystems 64-bit Sparc processors run the majority of massive systems around which the Internet is built, and yet deploying these solutions in any other arena is often shied away from. The major reason for this phenomenon was the highly proprietary nature of these 64-bit platforms. A number of the major vendors offered such solutions to the high-end computing arena, but none offered the open-ended solution which the chip giant's product promised to be.
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