Posted by Mike on Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 278 views
The 33rd America’s Cup will get underway in Valencia on Monday after a host of legal disputes over the rules and the venue.
Challengers BMW Oracle of the U.S. are owned by Larry Ellison, the billionaire who founded computer giant Oracle more than 30 years ago.
He became a computer programmer at Ampex, participating in building the first IBM-compatible mainframe system.
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 110 views
Ellison: “IBM DB2 is good on mainframes, the best in the world. Oracle is good on everything else—x86 and all others. It’s too bad DB2 can’t run on modern …
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 89 views
Ellison: “They are not competitive in the database business except on the mainframe. I will grant you that the two best databases in the world are IBM on …
Ellison: “Take IBM’s DB2 database for Unix, what they used to call UDB. For OLTP applications, how many can they group together? Um, one. So when you’re attacking a really big job, that’s all they can do, one server. It can’t scale out, …
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