Alpha-male Ellison issues $10m Exadata challenge

Excellent.

I only need to do two transactions.

I'll set it up. It's doubtful that Oracle can do two in the time anything else can do one - voila, ten million. Right?

Eh? What about Teradata?

Since Teradata's Partners conference is just 2 weeks away, it will be interesting to see what their response is to Oracle's rather limited challenge, given the ability of @ctive data warehouse to run both OLTP and BI against 3rd normal schemas simultaneously. With lower TCO, on Intel hardware.

Reminds me that Oracle and IBM were all hot about TPC-D a while back, until everyone discovered that the TPC benchmarks were all about how well you could cheat on a test...

Here's a real $10M challenge

Only Fortune 1000? – who would offer their good name to this goat rodeo

What is $10M when you have “Customers over a barrel”?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_38/b4147052120632.htm

Here is the $10M challenge. If Oracle does not do the following in 2010

1) Increase Sun prices significantly - similar to BEA WebLogic?

(Oracle increased BEA prices 47% six months after acquisition)

2) Kill Sun products and force migrations to other Oracle products?

.Oracle is moving customers from their application server to

WebLogic and requiring new licenses. Oracle also bought

Virtual iron in May and killed the product in June.

3) Lay off 20% to 50% of the Sun workforce.

How else is Oracle going to turn Sun from “Bleeding $100M per month” into

a “$1.5B in profit engine in year one and $2B in year two”

4) Force services from partners to direct to increase profit margins

and maintenance costs?. Oracle cut off maintenance revenue from BEA partners.

5) Force customers to use low performance, low quality hardware

to increase software license and software maintenance revenue?

One Exadata v2 rack with “commodity” hardware costs $7M!!!!

6) Stagnate MySQL so they don’t bleed billions from Oracle EE

(What ever happened to WebLogic Lite?)

Only the Fortune 100 can enter, they cannot talk about their entry, and all data can be publicize freely by anyone but the customer.

Leisure Suit Larry is looking more like Crazy Larry as his prices are

IN-SA-A-A-A-A-ANE!

fine print * reserves the right to decide to pick who if any would get a challenge

See you at OOW!

Pick and Choose

Ludicrous nonsense, anyone with an ounce of intelligence can identify 10 ways which any 'comparison' can be weighted in which ever direction the organiser wants it to go.

footnote

"The server can't have any kinds of caching or other server appliances hooked into it to goose performance. I wonder if solid state disk counts..."

Why, is it a caching appliance?? It is secondary memory.

Good Bet

As poorly as most customers lay out their databases this is not a bad bet on Larry's part.

Hmm...

If it's were me, slip in

if ($arch == sun)

{

sleep 10

}

Easiesy $10M of my life :)