Just read an announcement about the brand new Oracle X5-8 server. Oracle will be one of the few vendors with an 8 socket Intel based server. This beast runs up to 144 Xeon cores based on E7-8895 v3 CPUs with 6 TB memory and 16 PCIe Gen3 slots. Read more about…

Oracle published a new MOS announcement saying with the beginning of Oracle Database 12.1.0.2, Standard Edition (SE) and Standard Edition One (SE1) are replaced by Standard Edition 2. SE2 will support 2 socket systems and is RAC aware. So it seems, that it…

I was looking for a while to find official answers on how long a Sun or an Oracle hardware could be under a valid service contract. There is no more “End of Service Life” (EOSL) like it was at Sun… in Oracle terms: “With Lifetime Support for Oracle Hardware,…