Like many I have dedicated my life to following Larry's crackpot schemes, working as an Oracle D(oes) B(ugger) A(ll). Tightfisted CTO's might buy into this to save money, which means in the short-term lots of us might be out looking for work, but then when these things don't pan out quite a well as expected and another one of Larry's little fantasies falls by the wayside ( Net Computer anyone? ), they will either need proper support or migrating to proper hardware...boom-time again!

The software is preinstalled because Oracle's install procedures still don't work properly all the time. My guess is the version that is preinstalled will be too out of date and will have to be deinstalled before a new installation can actually be run thus using up more money than saving anything.

Hello, I'm a DBA and this is Larry playing with taking our cheque book and not helping his users.

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So, all the hardware is non-proprietary and available off the shelf.... The Oracle licences cost the same? And it's on Oracle's RHEL-knock-off Linux.... So, unless Oracle are subsidising the hardware or Oracle licences, what's to stop anybody just copying the build and making their own using RHEL, SuSE or even the dreaded Slowaris x86 and probably doing it cheaper?

I have worked for many years with netezza , teradata: very weak to develop applications with their basic sql!!!! very old featres and functions ....now with high speed data manipulation oracle will be unbeatable....tx Larry!