If you've spent any time with Oracle sales staff you'll know their pitch these days is that their on-chip acceleration is the only way to break IO barriers, and

If you've spent any time with Oracle sales staff you'll know their pitch these days is that their on-chip acceleration is the only way to break IO barriers, and that you'll get a shit experience with Oracle DBs unless you deploy on Oracle hardware. It's an old-school full stack play straight from the mainframe era. SSD, by way of contrast, is relatively commodity stuff that Oracle can't get a lock-in with.