Lustre

Looks like lustre will survive: http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-announce/2010-February/000240.html

HPC could be an appliance play... So oracle probably is interested.

Lustre

Lustre survies: http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-announce/2010-February/000240.html

HPC could be an appliance play at the low-end/midrange. So I see oracle as interested.

Pissing Contest

Looks like the EU and Oracle is in a old fashioned pissing contest... To bad its over a database that generates a a piddly 200million in revenue a year. When there's a 10billion dollar company with employee's and customers at stake.

Perceived value

A a SPARC VII customer I can say I've been pleased with the systems. In real world application performance (mostly running oracle) our M4000's have delievered the goods. The x64 servers give much better price/performance, but we're not just interested in price performance. The RAS of the system is very important to us. Considering the RAS of the platform and real world application performance I think the SPARC VII systems give good value vs. Power and Itanium machines. If you compare SPARC VII to x64 and you're looking for trans per $ the x64 will win. Its way cheaper and the performance just as fast at <65% utilization. When you buy these RISC systems you have to consider you're motivations. Are you just looking for $ per tran or are you concerned about RAS? How much is that RAS worth to you?