Oracle and Sun Fingered for Sidekick Loss

Oracle and Sun Fingered for Sidekick Loss

The combination of Oracle and Sun has apparently scored a massive hit on Microsoft even before the firms consummate their merger.The Sidekick service crash involved an Oracle RAC database and Sun Solaris and Linux servers.
Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) involves a single database running across a cluster of servers for fault tolerance, performance and scalability reasons.SideKick mobile phones have their data, contact lists, calendars and so forth stored by Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, on its servers and storage arrays.

Users of T-Mobile's Sidekick phones experienced a severe data loss which makes us think about remote backup. Microsoft, the owner of the infrastructure service behind Sidekick, said that most if not all the data was recoverable.