Dell, Oracle Push the Clustered Data Center

April 7, 2003

Michael Dell and Larry Ellison teamed up last week to pitch a vision for the future of the data center that is built on smaller, standards-based Dell Computer Corp. servers and Oracle Corp. database clustering software.

But some enterprise customers, while seeing a trend toward distributed computing on industry-standard Windows or Linux systems, are not ready to abandon large symmetric multiprocessing platforms.

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