When Oracle bought BEA in April 2008 it inherited a R&D project designed to run BEA’s WebLogic middleware on a virtual machine without an operating system.
The work has received a boost inside the database giant.
Hats off: Oracle is looking at running a database directly on a virtual machine
The company is now looking at running an Oracle database directly on a virtual machine without an operating system.
CEO Larry Ellison did not offer additional detail of the work on a Tuesday evening fourth-quarter conference call. But he said the effort is alive and well.
“We are looking at that,” he said.
The implications are clear. If a database server no longer needs to include an operating system, suppliers of Linux and Windows could suffer.
And Oracle’s push to supply a complete stack of software from virtual machine on up could be easier (even if a stripped down OS is included).
