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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 26, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 21
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Breaking News - Platforms:
Sun And Oracle Expand Support For Solaris SPARC Systems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Oracle Corp. announced an expansion of their 20-
year strategic alliance to include support for Oracle products on Sun's full
line of Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 and Linux systems.
"Sun and Oracle have established the standard for enterprise computing over
the last two decades. Today's announcements send the strongest possible signal
that Sun and Oracle will together make low-cost computing platforms ready for
prime time in the enterprise," said Mark Tolliver, executive vice president of
marketing and strategy for Sun. "Lowest acquisition cost will be just one
dimension of what we deliver. Together we're going to bring a new level of
simplicity and manageability that significantly reduces the total cost of
ownership for customers. Sun is the best platform for Oracle and we are now
poised to extend that leadership to systems running Solaris x86 and
unbreakable Linux."
"Oracle and Sun have long partnered to bring customers highly reliable
enterprise class systems," said Mark Jarvis, chief marketing officer, Oracle
Corp. "Our joint vision for low-cost computing allows customers to take
advantage of the enterprise software they need to grow their businesses
successfully, without the traditional cost associated with high-end servers."
In expanding the scope of their alliance, the companies announced today that:
- Oracle software will run on the #1 UNIX(r), Solaris SPARC; Solaris x86; and
Linux on x86 -- bringing enterprise reliability and scalability to low-cost
servers running mission critical applications and broadening customer choice
in server environments. This includes certification for Oracle9i Database,
Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters, Oracle9i Application Server,
Oracle Collaboration Suite and the Oracle E-Business Suite. An increased focus
on Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters on Sun furthers the drive
to highly available, low-cost Oracle on Sun database clusters as an option in
the datacenter.
- Sun will continue to deliver systems at industry-leading price points
for branded Linux distributions.
- Sun and Oracle intend to roll out a global consolidation program in the
upcoming fiscal year that will highlight how their joint platforms provide
leadership in availability, utilization and manageability. This program is
expected to build on today's announcements by defining reference architectures
across all joint platform offerings and will leverage Sun's iForce Centers
and Oracle Technology Centers worldwide to develop proof-of-concepts and
reduce customer risk.
- Sun and Oracle will work together to enable automated deployment of
Oracle and its resources in an N1-enabled data center. N1 aggregates
heterogeneous computing resources and automates the complexity associated with
managing technology. The integration of N1 and Oracle is expected to provide
the capability to provision the Oracle database environment, while replacing
failed hardware components on the fly, enabling a flexible database
deployment. The companies also intend to incorporate Oracle database as the
data store for Sun's N1, and work together to make N1 leverage the advantages
of Oracle database technology.
- Sun and Oracle will bring low-cost computing to collaboration through
Oracle Collaboration Suite and Sun's StarOffice software. With an
integrated approach that simplifies communications and content, Oracle
Collaboration Suite running on the Solaris platform is a more reliable, secure
and cost-effective choice to the current fragmented server solutions. On the
desktop, Sun's StarOffice software offers a full-featured, multi-platform
office suite that offers a cost effective multi-platform alternative to closed
office suites.
- The companies will run an "Oracle Makes Sun Unbreakable" joint marketing
program touting the highly available and reliable combination of Oracle
products on Sun servers.
- Sun and Oracle plan to simplify access to technology and support for
developers by sharing information and services across the Sun Developer
Connection (www.sun.com/developers/) and Oracle's developer portal,
the Oracle Technology Network (otn.oracle.com/), creating a common
community for more than 5 million developers.
Oracle and Sun have worked together for 20 years to deliver the ultimate in
secure, reliable and scalable enterprise-class datacenters to over 70,000
customers around the world. With a shared commitment to open, standards-based
computing, Oracle and Sun deliver optimal performance, innovation and value to
the customer through joint engineering efforts, sales and service. With this
announcement, Sun and Oracle plan to bring the same performance to low-cost,
commodity-based computing by introducing standards-based clustered servers as
a choice for building data centers.
For more information about today's announcements and the Oracle Sun alliance,
go to sun.com/presskits/lowcostcomputing.
Web site: sun.com
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