Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Oracle Acquired Tangosol

Last year it was TimesTen and SleepyCat (BerkeleyDB).
This year it is Tangosol.
Who will be the next?

This database giant acquired Tangosol (vendor of Coherence data cache which has been used in many large financials), adding to its "Extreme Transaction Processing" initiative.

http://go.techtarget.com/r/1194471/5981609
http://www.oracle.com/tangosol/index.html

Installing Solaris 10 on SunFire V210

Because most of my time, I have spent in the development, this event is considered a rare occasion: a hands-on experience on plain Sun SPARC based 64-bit machine. This time I have it all in my power: SunFire V210. A machine which you could install, reinstall, configure, reconfigure the way you want it.
In my opinion, it was much easier to install Solaris 10 on Sun's machine, than it was to install one on a virtual machine, or even on an ordinary PCs. The Auto Layout Disk went smoothly, no failure is necessary.
This is actually a rather old machine, used to test the installation script. The client doesn't want to go to their client and install the application only to find out that there's something missing in the installation script. So we fetch out a machine similar to the production platform: a SunFire V245. It is of a bigger size (2U, I think) compared to V210 (1U).

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