I see from www.spec.org that Oracle have posted some impressive SPECjAppServer2004 results for the second quarter of 2009. To summarise, 28463.30 JOPS on 17 nodes, 136 cores and 68 chips, putting into the shade IBM's result of 22643.13 JOPS on 16 nodes, 128 cores and 32 chips, posted here. I'm sure that this has not escaped the attention of Andrew Spyker and his team at IBM.
On the same theme, IBM are rumoured to be bringing out a competitor to Exadata 2 called DB2 Pure Scale as reported by The Register. On some of The Register articles, IBMers have jumped on the comments thread to extol the virtues of DB2, and whilst I'm not for a second criticising it as a product, who actually uses it ?. I live and work in the Uk, if I go to www.jobswatch.co.uk and look for DB2 dba jobs, there have been seventeen job adverts for DB2 DBAs in the last three months, versus three hundred and sixty nine for Oracle DBAs, if this web site is to be believed that is.
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