This interview was with "The Register".
Her take on Databases. Yes and I'd really love to see those developments going in the direction of Oracle RAC. I'm sure there are lots of SQL Server clusters running on VMware in production.
El Reg: What kind of applications are companies still a bit nervous about moving onto a virtual machine?
DG: I would say it is completely horizontal in the apps they are doing, but the apps where somebody might not do it is where you have something that uses every bit of a huge machine - like a giant database.
People run databases in the virtual machines, but a giant database that is using a whole machine and could use even more isn't on a virtual machine today.
I do think that will happen one day, but I think it will happen when the hardware support for virtualization gets further along.
El Reg: How many companies really do run Oracle on top of a virtual machine?
DG: Lots.
We see SQL Server and Oracle all the time. It's pretty widespread.
It's databases, it's e-mail servers, it's web servers, it's file and print and servers, it's certainly test and dev environments and departmental applications. When we do surveys, the types of software are pretty spread out.
Some corporate massaging...
El Reg: Changing directions, we're curious if life has changed for this plucky start-up since you became part of the giant that is EMC.
DG: I think EMC has been remarkably strategic about letting us thrive and grow on our own. Joe (Tucci, EMC CEO) has been very supportive.
There are a certain amount of things you do that aren't related to moving the company forward in the industry when you're a public company. The amount of work I've done that wasn't related to that is very minimal.
El Reg: You mean to say that had you ended up as the CEO of public company, you'd have to do a lot more socializing with the financial analysts and whatnot?
DG: Yes. As a public company, you spend a lot of time with investors.
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