Foreword
How did the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) come into being? That’s a good question, and I’d like to share some of the history, motivation, and thought-process behind the appliance’s creation.
We in the the Real Application Clusters (RAC) development group at Oracle were striving to make RAC a more broadly adopted technology. Oracle RAC saw rapid adoption and growth in its first decade (2001 through 2011) in the market, but many mid-market customers were avoiding RAC for reasons of perceived complexity and cost. While RAC was common and accepted in large, enterprise environments, Oracle’s mid-market customers did not have a simple and affordable RAC database solution.
In early 2010, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems and a new world of ...
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