This is a message for those of you interested in High Availability with
Oracle, more specifically TruCluster and Oracle OPS.
Oracle made an announcement earlier this week which will impact these 2
products in a major way.
here is a short extract of the announcement. I have also included a number
of pointers for those of you that would like to get some more info on this.
>From : http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010227/sftu076_3.htmlOracle9i(TM)
Real Application Clusters Expected to Significantly Lower Clustering
Deployment Costs for E-Businesses
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- (
http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?615503 )
Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - news), the largest provider of software
for e-business, today
announced a multi-year technology and business partnership with Compaq
Computer Corp. to deliver
clustered computer configurations based upon Oracle9i Real Application
Clusters and Compaq TruCluster
Server.
Oracle and Compaq plan to tightly integrate components of Compaq's Tru64
UNIX cluster technology into
Oracle9i Real Application Clusters to create a more scalable, manageable,
reliable and cost-effective
clustered database platform. Oracle9i Real Application Clusters is expected
to be available on Oracle
supported platforms, with Compaq as the lead development partner and Compaq
Tru64 UNIX as a
development and reference platform.
On the Oracle site :
http://www.oracle.com/features/index.html?clusters.html
On the Compaq site :
http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/news/oracle_0201.html
Corinne Haesaerts
Pre-sales consultant
Compaq Belgium
Received on Thu Mar 01 2001 - 15:51:06 NZDT