04-20-2011
The way I see it this is partly revenge/payback.
Here's what happened.
Mark Hurd left HP under a cloud over some sexual harassment with actress Jodie Fisher. They could have cover it up this small internal matter but I think it was internal politics that forced him out and into the arms of oracle but it was a humiliating exit.
So now the announcement to stop support for itanium I see this as payback to hurt HP also they want use this to bring up sun's market share again.
This will put preassure on HP's customers. If you have HP itanium server running cluster with oracle there is a clock ticking and you will be under preassure to do something about it. HP has come out to say they will continue to support oracle on itanium though no further details have been mentioned.
In the long run ... IBM has DB2, Oracle has sun .. HP has ??? my guess is they could try to buy SAP since Léo Apotheker was ex-CEO of SAP who is also now the CEO of HP.
SAP was recently asked to pay oracle 1.3 billion in copyright fines. So both HP and SAP hate oracle guts and with Léo Apotheker as the common denominator what do you think is going to happen?
Lets imagine here say HP buys sap and sap develops a database and offers a migration option for customers to move away from oracle or SAP endorses DB2 with HP and IBM alliance oracle may call a truce and sack Hurd again for being more trouble than he is worth.
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apache::session::oracle
Session::Oracle(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Session::Oracle(3)
NAME
Apache::Session::Oracle - An implementation of Apache::Session
SYNOPSIS
use Apache::Session::Oracle;
#if you want Apache::Session to open new DB handles:
tie %hash, 'Apache::Session::Oracle', $id, {
DataSource => 'dbi:Oracle:sessions',
UserName => $db_user,
Password => $db_pass,
Commit => 1
};
#or, if your handles are already opened:
tie %hash, 'Apache::Session::Oracle', $id, {
Handle => $dbh,
Commit => 1
};
DESCRIPTION
This module is an implementation of Apache::Session. It uses the Oracle backing store and no locking. See the example, and the
documentation for Apache::Session::Store::Oracle for more details.
USAGE
The special Apache::Session argument for this module is Commit. You MUST provide the Commit argument, which instructs this module to
either commit the transaction when it is finished, or to simply do nothing. This feature is provided so that this module will not have
adverse interactions with your local transaction policy, nor your local database handle caching policy. The argument is mandatory in order
to make you think about this problem.
This module also respects the LongReadLen argument, which specifies the maximum size of the session object. If not specified, the default
maximum is 8 KB.
AUTHOR
This module was written by Jeffrey William Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>.
SEE ALSO
Apache::Session::File, Apache::Session::Flex, Apache::Session::DB_File, Apache::Session::Postgres, Apache::Session
perl v5.12.1 2007-09-28 Session::Oracle(3)