Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

513.0. "Oracle has Unix TP Monitor" by KCBBQ::DUNCAN (Oracle ... the designer database) Thu Dec 07 1989 17:06

From Digital Review, October 23, 1989:

Oracle, Pyramid, iTi Add AT&T Monitor Technology to OLTP

  "Oracle has teamed with Pyramid Technologies and Independence Technologies
Inc. (iTi), a medical-industry value-added reseller, to harness AT&T's
transaction monitor technology for controlling Oracle's OLTP system. 

  The system combines version 6 of the Oracle database with iTi's implementation
of the AT&T Tuxedo (System/T) Transaction Manager, on Pyramid's MIServer line of
RISC-based servers.

  A transaction monitor automatically manages multiple CPUs and memory devices
on a system, routing transactions to under-utilized devices to help achieve
optimum OLTP performance, according to Oracle's director of Unix maketing
programs, Stan Tims. 

  The combination of the iTi Transaction Manager with Oracle version 6 on the
Pyramid platform gives Oracle a truly multithreaded, multiserver Unix RDBMS
system, according to Tims.

  The agreement between the three companies allows them to jointly market the
systems, which will be available next month.

  Tims added that he is aware of other hardware vendors currently working to
integrate the Unix-based System/T technology with their processor architecture.

  According to Tims, AT&T is currently developing version 4 of the System/T
transaction monitor package, which will allow transaction monitoring of local
area networks.  This version of System/T will balance OLTP functions among all
CPU and memory resources that appear on a given network, Tims said.

  Oracle intends to support the networked version of System/T, Tims said.

  Tims said Oracle's other internal divisions, such as DEC Products Division,
will probably seek a similar transaction monitor package to incorporate in VMS
versions of the Oracle RDBMS.  However, it is not clear whether the Unix-based
System/T package will ever be ported to those products, he said. 

  For example, the IBM division within Oracle is more likely to choose IBM's
proprietary transaction monitor, CICS, than adopt System/T, Tims said."