>yes - that's simulation. What I said. And who do you think has these big >weather simulation setups? Certainly not each TV station...
HPC is a vital business close to our society. If Oracle is a system company they must play HPC and support it the way IBM and other big irons do. Im not gonna start to explain you here the pro and cons of HPC nor advocate whats good about it. Who knows about HPC will understand me right ahead. I have no idea what Oracle is after but killing the HPC market will have a negative impact on future Oracle x86/SPARC hdw. Oracle is starting more and more to show visible signs that they will play in a very restricted market segment for their DB products. Dicard here all marketing stunts and big liners mgmt talks about ;) About weather prediction: in US AFAIK there are already private companies which can run different models. They offer the results to many other private companies so, yes it is already a business. In EU things are on smaller scale so you will find governments involved. In Asia I have no info, probable close to EU. Some of these accounts are on Solaris already and killing them is simple not a smart move. Scientific community might move away from Sun/Oracle as a vendor/provider. And when they do that they will trigger others to lose interest for Oracle systems: schools, agencies, universities etc. But probable this is what Oracle really wants !? Small, dedicated market segment ? If you need a DB and have big $$$ then you are lucky if not go somewhere else... Greetings, Stefan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
