eWeek: Clustering Eases Talk America's Replication Woes | Linux Today

eWeek: Clustering Eases Talk America’s Replication Woes

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 3, 2005

[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]

“Talk America Holdings Inc., a phone and high-speed Internet
access provider and an early adopter of Oracle Corp.’s 10g
technology, has untangled itself from 50 Informix databases down to
two Oracle databases running on an RAC cluster—a choice
that’s jazzed up its querying capabilities and helped it wipe its
hands of a data replication mess.

“The New Hope, Penn., company six months ago began a migration
to Oracle’s Application Server 10g on Linux, Database 10g, RAC
(Real Application Clusters) 10g and Enterprise Manager 10g…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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