The products involved are the already familiar engineered appliances Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and the SPARC SuperCluster, an appliance running Solaris 11 on up to 16 SPARC processors with eight cores each.
The formerly cordial relationship between the two soured when Oracle entered the hardware business by buying Sun Microsystems, which brought along its SPARC microprocessor architecture as part of the dowry.