[adamleventhal]

When a company the size of Oracle announces something at their premiere conference, it's reliably not something they thought of for the first time that morning. If Ed Screven was a developer, hacking up DTrace for OEL, and writing on his blog and not the Chief Corporate Architect, reporting to Oracle's CEO, Larry Ellison, speaking at a keynote then I would totally agree with you.

Apple's WWDC in 2006 they announced DTrace. They handed it out; it worked. It had rough edges, but it was obviously worthy of release.

Paul Fox started hacking up DTrace for Linux in 2008. It's not perfect, and there's work to be done, but he's making progress and representing what he has appropriately.

Here's what Oracle's Linux blog had to say earlier today: http://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/looking_back_at_oracle_o... Another interesting feature we announced and is already available to Oracle Linux customers is "DTrace." We released a preview of DTrace which is made available to Oracle Linux support subscribers. Wim is also on a roll as you can see from his detailed blog entry on DTrace!