Surendra Reddy commented on your post:

“Agreed with Vishal. With the advances in memory technology, and programmable System-on-Chips, we can literally elimate many layers of complexity in application and database systems. I can visualize how many layers of code in Oracle database deals with managing addressing, page translation, resource management, block management so on and so forth. Many of these layers in database management, which were originally designed to address small and expensive main memory systems. Now we can literally run entire database in memory. We can delegate most of these functions to SoC – hardware can do better job in page translation, bit map indexing and so on. Reduced layers reduces the application complexity.

Reduce application complexity enables applications to better utilize the underlying hardware assets.”

Remember when Apotheker was interviewed by Rose? He was asked about future developments and talked about hardware integration:
http://www.pixelbase.co.uk/?p=281

Regards,
M