Comments on: Interview: Kevin Closson on the Oracle Exadata Storage Server

By: Oracle Database Machine on a Budget: Standard Edition (SE)? | Pythian Group Blog

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:27:02 +0000

[...] you read our blog attentively, you might recall an interview with Kevin Closson where he stated that “this [Exadata] is Enterprise Edition only”. [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:51:26 +0000

“And after a fruitful endeavour as the chief software architect for Oracle solutions at Polyserve, it became an opportunity to latch onto Oracle, because we sold our company to them. So there we are.”

Eek. Well, Christ, Paul, as we’ve discussed the next one will need better audio quality. I’m pretty sure I didn’t say “latch onto Oracle” and I know I ceratinly didn’t say we sold PolyServe to Oracle…we sold PolyServe to HP…

Anyway, I think folks can tell the audio was rough and thus the transcription is a it rough :-)

I’m calling from a land line for the next one!

By: Arup Nanda

Arup Nanda — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:28:53 +0000

Excellent, excellent material. I believe this is the best and most comprehensive details on the Exadata appliance anywhere – no marketing; all technology. Thank you Christo for the wonderful leads in questionsing and Kevin for those answers. I wish I had discovered this blog entry earlier.

By: Bradd Piontek

Bradd Piontek — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:21:07 +0000

I think I took my stupid pills this week. Ignore my last comment :) Hose away.

By: Bradd Piontek

Bradd Piontek — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:17:06 +0000

It may not be a Pythian podcast, but Kevin decided to create one anyway :) Kevin Closson and Pythian Podcast

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Log Buffer #117: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:14:11 +0000

[...] with with the second part of the Exadata FAQ by Kevin Closson. In that post he also mentions his interview on the Exadata with Paul and Christo here at [...]

By: Kevin Closson

Kevin Closson — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:04:57 +0000

Don,

Yeah, I thought you guys would like that bit :-)

By: Don Seiler

Don Seiler — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:02:59 +0000

“And now Oracle is all.”

Someone tell me Kevin has this on a bumper sticker for me.

And what does “we canâ€™t just turn on the garden hose and hose everybody down” mean?

By: Interview: Kevin Closson on the Oracle Exadata Storage Server auf maol Jeopardy!

Interview: Kevin Closson on the Oracle Exadata Storage Server auf maol Jeopardy! — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:59:25 +0000

[...] Wo hats mehr technische Info über den Oracle Exadata Storage Server als jemals zuvor? [...]

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:38:01 +0000

Yes, big thanks to Paul for organising this, Christo for the good questions and Kevin for staying connected in this way. A few minutes good quality reading and as far as I’m concerned this is good for Oracle, good for their customers and good for geeks.

Oh, and Paul …

“So, I must sayâ€“just to go on the recordâ€“that this is not at all what I thought you might be cooking up, but by the same token â€” and obviously the evidence for that is all over the Pythian blog, where we had a speculative blog entry about what might be in-store.”

Humility. Nice touch ;-)

“I am tremendously impressed and really excited”

Complete agreement.

Nice one, chaps!