Dell and Oracle teamed up in Auckland last week to demonstrate what they are calling unbreakable Linux.

That's an extension of the Oracle "unbreakable" sales pitch for its database products: this time Dell and Red Hat were part of the act, the aim of which was show the "enterprise-readiness" of the hardware-software combination.

The demonstration was revealing of Dell's ascension from the desktop to the server room. The PowerEdge machine on show featured a two-node cluster loaded with memory and storage capacity with a price tag to match – about $US250,000.

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