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By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:32:06 +0000

I never participated in that program, but I remember it. Sorry it got shut
down–seemed like a brilliant way to get customers (or prospective
customers) access to play with cool new stuff!

By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:32:06 +0000

I never participated in that program, but I remember it. Sorry it got shut
down–seemed like a brilliant way to get customers (or prospective
customers) access to play with cool new stuff!

By: Ignacio Ruiz

Ignacio Ruiz — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:52:51 +0000

HP used to have a “Testdrive” program where they offered free access for evaluation purposes on HPUx-Linux boxes; some of them even with Oracle databases running. Unfortunately they shutdown the project, too bad

By: Il Cloud Computing avanza « Oracle and other

Il Cloud Computing avanza « Oracle and other — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:50:50 +0000

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By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:27:46 +0000

Never heard of anywhere to get time on HPUX or AIX servers. Maybe you could find an old one on ebay or something. Certainly wouldn't be $1.02 like Amazon, but if you need it badly enough…

By: Yong Huang

Yong Huang — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:12:05 +0000

Slightly off-topic. Do you, or anybody here, know where I can get very cheap access to an account on an HPUX, and AIX box? Occasionally I need to check something, or even write some programs (OS-dependent) on those platforms. Pay by access time is a great idea for me. But Amazon cloud doesn't offer those OS's.
--yong321 @ yahoo.com

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:10:43 +0000

Wow. Yeah I remember Matt talking up EC3 when we were working together. But I never actually did the math – that's a way better deal then I imagined it would be. I'm definitely going to remember this one. Having the AMIs up there makes a big difference – how long have they been there?

I think you could do a similar thing by just taking a snap of an existing VM with the appropriate version of Oracle and starting it as a new server. I keep a library of different versions on a big hard drive at home. You could probably get a similar time-to-completion that way, and I really like having it run right on my laptop (especially nice for demos and such)… but still – this is really cool! Great post!

By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:29:22 +0000

Glad to hear it. I was surprised how easy it was and with the step-by-step set up by Oracle and the new web-based console, it will be even easier than when I tried I think.

Good luck. I'll look for your blog entry about your attempt soon .