Oracle Takes the Hardware Road
    In 1996, Oracle made a run at the hardware with The Network Computer, which 
  as I recall was a $200 dumb terminal that used the Internet to serve up corporate 
  and consumer apps. PCs at the time were cheap enough -- and Web apps lame enough 
  -- that it never worked.
Now Oracle is back 
  in the hardware saddle, this time with a vastly different and higher-end 
  strategy. This time, the Oracle hardware is designed to support a massive database 
  server and a separate storage appliance. 
The move is more about packaging than innovation. Oracle will simply blend 
  its software with HP hardware. Still, moves like this make it easier for IT 
  to buy, install, operate and maintain systems, so there's a clear net plus.
 
	
Posted by Doug Barney on September 29, 2008