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Oracle to sell computer hardware for first time

Posted on | September 25, 2008 |

The expansion announced Wednesday by Chief Executive Larry Ellison calls for Oracle’s sales team to peddle a “database machine” and a smaller storage product, both made by Hewlett-Packard Co. Both pieces of hardware are designed to help companies fetch information stored on Oracle’s database software more quickly while taking up less space in corporate data centers.

Ellison unveiled the products — in development for three years — at an Oracle customer conference attended by nearly 43,000 people.

The database machine will sell for $650,000 and store up to 168 terabytes — “1,400 times larger than Apple’s largest iPod,” Ellison boasted in reference to the 120-gigabyte media device made by the company run by his best friend, Steve Jobs.

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  1. steve
    September 25th, 2008 @ 3:30 pm

    Surely oracle are not buliding the hardware themselves, i guess they will have paired up with an OEM hardware company or some body like dell to build this for them. Also i wonder what the hardware config is, racks of blades or sun like mainframes ?

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