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To: HDC who wrote (3422)	6/5/2000 1:07:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Respond to of 10934

The Sun literature don't call it a lite version of Solaris at all. It seems to have some new, simplified admin tools and is pre-configured to plug and play. I doubt it is a different version of the OS at all. I had an interesting thought. Oracle, Informix, Sybase have, until NTAP came along, never supported NFS mounts of their database volumes. The data had to be on the same physical server as the RDBMS engine was running. NTAP proved that it had overcome the issues so that the data could reside on an NFS mount if that mount platform is an NTAP filer. That made it possible to use NAS in RDBMS environments. Unless SUN has overcome the problems associated with NFS mounts of database tables, NTAP is the only solution supported by Oracle, et al. I am pretty certain that SUN has not overcome that problem because NTAP's NVRAM method of recovering from failures is inherent Oracle's support of NTAP as an NFS platform. SUN has no such innovation.