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To: sasha4477 who wrote (924)	5/6/1999 10:09:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) of 10934

sasha (love your handle!), chris pretty well nailed it. Oracle 8i has no bearing on NTAP or file servers at all. Oracle does have a product called "raw iron" which is a "database appliance". The idea is you take this machine out of the box, plug into to your network, and you have a high performance database (Oracle) server. Guess where they got the idea? NTAP was the first, (and only) SAN or NAS provider to get official support from Oracle for the Oracle's RDBMS tables to reside on an NFS mount. NFS mounts are generally considered too unreliable and too "distant" from the server running the Oracle engine to be supported as the place where the actual data resided. Sybase and Informix also support NTAP for NFS mounts of their data as well. No, raw iron is not a competitor to NTAP. It is a smaller capability in which the OS has been stripped of irrelevant code and capabilities so that it supports the execution of Oracle's engine in a more efficient manner than a general purpose server (NT or UNIX).

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