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  • Oracle's prickly partners

    The database giant launched its grid computing offering with much fanfare but when its partners are sending mixed messages, will this help Oracle's cause?

  • Grid computing 'overhyped'

    A leading figure in the European grid research community has criticised the technology industry for exaggerating the current capabilities of their grid computing products.

  • Grids over the enterprise WAN

    SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.

  • Buzzwords and bandwagons

    There won't really be a big recovery in the IT industry until vendors learn to communicate.

  • Scientists complete Grid foundations

    New specifications will make it possible for scientists to share the ever-growing mountains of data generated by research projects.

  • Itanium gets supercomputing software

    Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.

  • Why HP might be your next utility company

    Although HP's version currently is limited to its SuperDome servers, the company sees a time when all computer resources are connected to a grid, with customers billed on a usage basis.

  • Oracle unveils first hardware product

    Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.

  • Most Oracle database admins don't apply patches?

    Around 70 percent of Oracle database professionals say they have never applied a security patch, according to database security firm Sentrigo.

  • Oracle Database 11g on Linux released

    Oracle has announced the availability of its Oracle Database 11g on the Linux platform and new capabilities for its Enterprise Edition offering.

  • Qantas ditches Linux for AIX

    Qantas will next month shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM's Unix variant AIX as part of its wide-ranging eQ transformation project.

  • Fiorina: Grid computing overhyped

    The grid idea seems to have sped through all the phases of a new technology's life cycle at OracleWorld, inspiring breathless exuberance and sober reassessment in just four days.

  • Windows servers at risk at Linux-friendly Bartter

    Local poultry producer Bartter Enterprises is evaluating the future of around 70 Microsoft Windows servers, in the context of a recent migration of other systems to Red Hat Linux.

  • Oracle issues critical patches

    Patches fixing over 50 flaws, including some in PeopleSoft products, have been released by the database giant

  • CQU servers on the RAC

    Central Queensland University (CQU) is set to retire a number of "disparate servers" as its implementation of Oracle 10g (version 2) nears the end of the hardware deployment phase.

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