[Discuss] Surprises at the June Supercomputing conference

[Richard Pieri]

On Jun 21, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> 
> Are we reading the same tea leaves?
> They're betting the bank on Exadata and Cloud.
> Which is Exadata built with? Xeon, not Sparc.
> Cloud is always x86, alas.

Oracle added SPARC to Exalogic early this year, the T3-B1.

It's only a matter of time before Oracle offers a SPARC-based Exadata appliance.

--Rich P.