My history:
Since starting as an application developer many years ago, following a degree in Computer Science, I have always been working with Oracle and other relational database systems on UNIX in one way or another. During the past 15 years, I have been working with some of the largest and most powerful UNIX systems, especially multi-processor (SMP) systems, for different system manufacturers. In this time I have worked in both technical pre-sales and consultancy delivery roles, always focussing on the performance of applications using large databases running on UNIX multi-processor systems. As a result I have experience of the issues involved in designing, building and deploying large complex server based solutions.