Well, that’s it then. I might as well pack my bags and head home from Oracle Open World 2013 now.
After Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s opening day speech in a packed Mocsone Center, San Francisco, one journalist turned to me and said: "This is absolutely huge. There’s no way they can top this." And he wasn’t talking about the Oracle team’s success in the sailing.
The big announcements had been Oracle’s introduction of in-memory option for its 12C database, as well as it Big Memory Machine, M6-32.
Ellison said that the in memory option will make getting responses to queries 100 times faster. You can now get responses faster than you can come up with the questions. "These are ungodly speeds," he said.
The M6-32 Big Memory Machine, which is said to be ideal for in-memory databases is a high-powered server featuring a new processor in the form of the SPARC M6.
The chip incorporates 12 cores – twice the number in the current M5. Impressively, it can run 96 threads per processor.
And, for those of you who are interested, Team Oracle USA won both of yesterday’s Americas Cup races on San Francisco Bay, leaving the defending champion, Emirates Team New Zealand, trailing 8-5 in the first-to-nine points series, with two more races set for today.
So will there be any other announcements this week that can top Oracle’s in-memory option and Big Memory Machine, M6-32? Will Oracle Team USA win the Americas Cup? Maybe I should hang about in San Francisco a bit longer to find out.
