Ellison aims his first Oracle 'mainframe' at Big Blue • The Register

Aiming high; see the link below for some Oracle launch event slides

"Oracle announced the new Sparc servers at an event in San Francisco today, and El Reg already gave you the feeds and speeds on the new T5 and M5 processors and their respective systems. At that event, Ellison touched on some of the salient characteristics of the new servers, but he spent most of his time explaining how Oracle would keep the pedal to the metal, pushing performance even further after taking the lead from Intel and IBM in terms of throughput-per-processor and bang-for-the-buck against IBM's Power Systems lineup."

Ellison aims his first Oracle 'mainframe' at Big Blue • The Register