This subject came up in the Generalized Kernel Hooks Interface thread, since it
is an area of interest to me I wanted to continue that conversation.

While I do not think it would be productive to enter a discussion whether there
is a need to fork the kernel to add features that would be beneficial to
mission/business critical applications, I am curious as to what are the features
that people consider important to have.  By mission critical I mean systems that
if not functional bring a business to a halt, while by business critical I mean
systems that affect a division of a business.

Another problem is how people define Enterprise Systems.  Many base it on the
definitions that go back to S390 systems, others in the context of the 24/7
nature of the internet.  That would also be a healthy discussion to have.

At Oracle we are primarily interested on I/O subsystem features and memory
management.  (For anyone that knows anything about Oracle this should not come
as a surprise, although I am pretty sure that any database vendor/developer
would be interested on those features as well.)

Regards,

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  Josue Emmanuel Amaro                         Josue.Amaro@oracle.com
  Linux Products Manager
  Intel and Linux Technologies Group
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