Who uses Oracle vmware?
As the size of servers increases, Oracle shops seek uses for vmware on their Oracle servers: • SOA – Oracle plans to incorporate Oracle vmware into their fusion stack, allowing a method for unifying diverse applications onto a single server using SOAP. Oracle President Charles Phillips notes that Oracle vmware will help SAP shops migrate from their foreign ERP’s to Oracle Applications: “We want to help customers integrate their software with third-party applications made in Germany”. • Consolidating heterogeneous environments – Oracle vmware is useful for shops that wish to consolidate different applications onto a single hardware platform. A common example is running Windows side-by-side with UNIX (HP/UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux) on a large monolithic server. For example, instead of buying six 2 CPU servers, you can buy one 4 CPU 64bit server with 16G RAM, and save a bundle of cash. For details, see my notes on the trend towards Oracle server consolidation. • Oracle OLAP consolidation – M