Oracle Moves to Eliminate Operating Systems

Speaking at the Cloud Computing Expo conference in New York today, Hasan Rizvi, Oracle senior vice president of product development, said the WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option is about 33 percent faster in terms of transaction performance because the need for all the underlying operating system code has been eliminated.

Rizvi added that this implementation is inherently more secure because there is less code to attack and the overall cost of the application environment is substantially reduced in terms of what has to be managed and licensed.

Oracle today also introduced the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder that makes it possible for developers to assemble multiple application components using a tool that tracks the role those components play in any given system by storing the metadata that describes the role of each component. Developers can then assemble applications by reusing modules described in the Virtual Assembly Builder.