Techgoondu caught up with Ron Weiss, Oracle’s director of product management, on the business value of Exadata, which combines storage, Oracle database and servers in a single hardware appliance. Oracle claims that this set-up improves database performance, particularly in datawarehousing and online transaction processing where on-the-fly responses to database queries are paramount.

In this video, Weiss also shared his views on the upcoming “Exadata killer”, dubbed the DB2 Pure Scale by IBM, which also happens to be a Gold sponsor of this year’s Openworld confab.

Two weeks after IBM decided against buying Sun, Oracle announced just hours ago it has sealed the deal to buy Sun. Oracle will pay US$9.50 per share of Sun, 10 cents per share more than what IBM had offered. I knew something was up when I got a late SMS from Sun’s PR to attend an urgent conference call. Wow, this really came out of the BLUE,  pun quite intended.