Oracle executives have talked over the plans for Solaris 11 that is set to be released in 2011. Advancements are to be made in availability, security, and virtualization.
Solaris 11 will feature next-generation networking capabilities for scalability and performance, said John Fowler, Oracle executive vice president of systems, at a company event in Santa Clara, Calif. "It's a complete reworking of [the] enterprise OS," he said. Oracle took over Solaris early this year, when they acquired Sun Sun Microsystems.
Also at Thursday's event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison expressed Oracle's intention to dominate the Linux space. "Solaris is clearly the number one Unix, and we're working very hard at making Oracle Enterprise Linux the number one Linux," he said.
Oracle has already released Solaris 11 Express, a version of the OS geared for developers and a preview for the upcomming Solaris 11. This Express release of Solaris cannot be used in production or commercial environments.
Oracle announced the version 5.5 of MySQL on Wednesday. Which is the first major update since the database giants took over. Now that Oracle has two general-use databases it has to decide the placement of the product in the market. And so, Oracle has decided to market the open-source database for Web application market with MySQL
"We see them as being very distinct for different use cases," said Monica Kumar, Oracle senior director of product marketing.
"MySQL is a great database for Web-based applications, for custom departmental applications and for embedded uses. And the Oracle database is the leading enterprise database for high-end packaged applications: enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, online transaction processing, large data warehouses and business intelligence applications," Kumar said.
"The two products complement each other and fill in a variety of use cases," Kumar said.
MySQL has been the core product when you want a database for web applications when Oracle database simply cannot be used. She mentioned how MySQL is part of the LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Python/Perl) stack, which is widely used for deploying websites and Web applications. "It's been very successful in the Web-based application space," she said.
Another consideration for choosing mySQL over Oracle in the Web space is personnel. In many cases, a LAMP administrator would be more familiar with MySQL than with the Oracle namesake database, said Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL engineering. "It makes it easier to run with MySQL if for no other reason than the actual developer is used to MySQL."
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