Bob Evans, TechWeb's Senior Vice-President and Content Director, hat basierend auf den Aussagen von Oracle-Chef Lawrence Ellison bei der Bekanntgabe der Geschäftszahlen in der vergangenen Woche einen Strategieanalyse-Artikel verfasst. Der Oracle-Gründer Ellison verhöhnt mit seinen in dem Artikel zitierten Statements vor allem IBM und SAP. "In applications, SAP is the leader. But their technology that they use for applications is a...
...proprietary technology—a German programming language called ABAP. That's a 25-year-old technology that's still the center of their architecture and strategy for applications going forward, this ABAP," Ellison said.
..."Exadata Version 2 handles not only data warehouses but also handles transaction processing--we added a lot of flash memory into it—and we're gonna have new Exadata models—I don't want to preannounce anything, but we're gonna get better and better at very large-scale transaction processing. Our intent is that the Exadata line will challenge the biggest IBM P Series machines and beat them badly in performance, reliability, and cost. And we think we can do that: in transaction processing, we're twice as fast, and in data warehousing, we're 10 times as fast. Those are our goals: to be twice as fast as IBM's biggest, best box and again, at a dramatically lower price." ...
Na, IBM/SAP aber auch HP sind nicht gerade Fliegengewichte im Kampf um den IT-Weltpokal - aber dass Ellison das nicht schreckt, hat er erst kürzlich wieder bewiesen.
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