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To: Shane M who wrote (8944)	12/7/1998 9:49:00 AM
From: Michael Olin	of 19080

Oracle is not attempting to create their own OS. Oracle has, from day 1 back in the late 1970's, worked at making their products available regardless of the underlying OS. It has been possible (and in many cases unbelievably easy) to move an Oracle database from one platform to another, PC to mainframe and everything in between, without having to rewrite your application to the API of the new OS. Oracle 8i moves even farther away from the OS by moving some of the functionality that traditionally belonged to the OS (file management is the big one) into the database so that platform independence can be maintained. Memory management, process switching, print services and all of the other functional requirements of an OS will not be handled by Oracle. The "raw iron" project is not an Oracle OS either. It is geared towards developing a "database appliance". There will be a stripped down OS, most likely Linux, with an installed Oracle database, bundled with hardware (from various vendors). You just plug it in and go. The bottom line is: Oracle is not creating an OS, they are doing everything possible to make their database the best possible choice regardless of the underlying (hardware and) OS. -Michael

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