Oracle Enters the DW Appliance and Storage Server Market

So, the mystery "X" product was a database / data warehouse appliance, using HP Hardware and a custom storage server that takes predicates provided by the database and filters the data locally, returning just the results / columns back to the database rather than whole blocks of data. Oracle enters the data warehouse appliance market, more details on Kevin Closson's blog, and on the live blog plus pictures that I ran during the keynote.