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Oracle entering hardware business
SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp., the big database software company, is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Co. and getting into the hardware business too.
At the Oracle OpenWorld conference here Wednesday, CEO Larry Ellison just unveiled what he said were the first hardware products ever produced by his 30-year-old company.
The new HP-Oracle Database Machine and separate Exadata Storage Server, which come pre-loaded with Oracle software, are being produced through a new partnership between Oracle and HP.
Ellison, who’s famous for his excesses, went to great lengths to tout the size of his new storage servers. They’ll have 64 Intel processor cores for processing and 112 cores for storage and hold 168 terabyes of data.
“It holds really a lot of songs,” Ellison joked. “We’re not talking iPod nano here. This thing is 1,400 times larger than Apple’s largest iPod.”
With the new storage servers, Oracle comes into direct competition with other hardware and software companies, namely Dell Inc. and Teradata Inc., the big Ohio data warehousing company.
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By Mike Dell
September 25, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this
Go back to selling software.
Mike Dell