What's going on? From what I can tell, it’s not that Oracle is necessarily holding anything back; it’s more that its approach to the market is still being shaped up. The big job was getting the systems roadmaps in place and communicated to the world – and there still are some who will argue that Oracle hasn’t been clear enough on that issue.
However, it looks like almost all HPC-related content has disappeared from the Oracle website. If you drill down into the typical HPC market categories – Education & Research, Public Sector, and Life Sciences, for example – you’ll see that Oracle is primarily talking about how these segments are using Oracle software to manage the business side of the organization: human resources, ERP, etc.
It gets a bit deeper in Financial Services, where they cite a number of financial analytic packages. But what you don’t see is any obvious reference to Sun’s HPC organization or any materials about its value proposition or products for the large-scale, high throughput computing market.
To read the entire article at its source, please refer to Oracle: What now for HPC?