Cloud Computing: Larry Ellison to talk in-memory database, Oracle PaaS at OpenWorld

Grazed from TechWorld. Author: Chris Kanakarus.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison typically uses his annual OpenWorld conference keynotes to deliver the company’s biggest announcements and strategic positioning, and this year they will apparently involve an in-memory database and Oracle’s PaaS (platform as a service) offerings. On Sunday, Sept. 22 Ellison will deliver his first keynote, which is titled "Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Database and M6 Big Memory Machine," according to an announcement released Tuesday.

The first likely refers to something Ellison mentioned in June during an Oracle earnings call. While Oracle released an initial version of Database 12c in June, on the call Ellison referred to an upcoming product he described as a "vertical, columnar compressed, high-speed in-memory vertical database" that would be out at the end of this year…

Meanwhile, M6 Big Memory Machine is apparently a high-RAM server based on Oracle’s next-generation SPARC M6 chips and will likely be paired with the in-memory 12c product. All told, Oracle and Ellison clearly plan to take the fight to SAP, Microsoft and IBM with regard to in-memory computing…

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