Sun Microsystems and Oracle recently released Exadata V2 which is a combination of technologies from both of the companies. Essentially, the new database machine is a complete package of software, servers, storage and networking for all data management, including data warehousing, transaction processing and consolidated mixed application workloads  Software and it was mooted by Larry Elison, CEO of Oracle. The company also claims that the new machine  is 10 times to 50 times faster than the other data warehousing machine. While the servers perform heavy computing tasks, the company can store and retrieve information by using the database software.

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The burning question at JavaOne 2008 on lots of developers and businesses mind was how Sun was ever going to monetize all the cool technologies at JavaOne? If Sun goes down, so does the technologies it championed. I got the opportunity to ask the questions on the Java panel for media, to JavaFX lead and others.

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All throughout the JavaOne 2008 keynote presentation, I had the same nagging question, how is Sun going to profit from all these diverse technologies? In the end I don't have an answer.

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