"Appliances will work for use cases that don’t need cutting-edge performance"
And yet, nobody managed to win that million bucks from Oracle for building a generic solution that would at least meet the capabilities of an Exadata. Yet? Maybe never. If you can get better performance for the same price with an appliance, why bother with building a solution yourself that you would have to maintain later, not to mention Oracle will simply reuse whatever unique optimizations you used on the next Exadata.
So that statement about performance tradeoffs is not really true. Oh, so you mean *an analyst* said that? Well, never mind then.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
