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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 4, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 31
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Systems/Enterprise:
SUN TEAMS WITH ORACLE TO LOWER
COLLABORATIVE MESSAGING
In tandem with the launch of Oracle's Collaboration Suite Release 2, Sun
Microsystems Inc announced a joint effort to drive down total cost of
ownership and improve reliability of collaboration for customers on Sun
servers. Targeting the tens of thousands of customers running Oracle solutions
on Sun servers, the companies organized joint sales training and telemarketing
campaigns across three continents, introducing tools to help customers realize
the benefits of low-cost computing by utilizing Oracle Collaboration Suite and
Sun's StarOffice software.
"Collaboration applications are mission-critical for enterprises today,"
stated Steve Levine, vice president, Oracle Collaboration Suite Marketing.
"Together, Oracle and Sun have armed their sales force with the tools needed
to provide customers with a cost-effective, scalable and reliable
collaboration platform."
This announcement builds on more than two successful decades of teaming on
development to deliver customers platform scalability, security and
reliability, and helps catapult Sun as a leading systems vendor in the
enterprise-class collaborative services market.
"Oracle Collaboration Suite on Sun systems provides a solution that helps
solve major issues for customers using enterprise messaging applications,
especially cost, security, and complexity," said Stuart Wells, senior vice
president, market development, Sun Microsystems. "At the same time, the
interoperability and availability of StarOffice as an alternative office
productivity suite allows customers to cut their tether to Microsoft's pricing
schemes and frequent security breaches."
Oracle Collaboration Suite on Sun provides an integrated suite of
applications
that includes calendar, email, voice mail, search and Web conferencing
capabilities, which can be accessed from the client's desktop, Web browser,
PDA, telephone or wireless device. Oracle Collaboration Suite was developed on
the Solaris/SPARC platform to help provide customers with investment
protection and increased levels of security and scalability.
Additional benefits of Sun and Oracle development for collaboration
include:
- The Sun sizing tool -- available in Sun's iForce(SM) Competency Centers --
provides free sizing to customers who with the help of Sun Specialists can
determine the appropriate hardware requirements for Oracle software before
purchasing.
- Reduction in scheduled and unscheduled downtime, with simplified
administration.
- Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 on Sun servers requires fewer system
administrators -- on average, the ratio of Windows to UNIX system
administrators is five to one.
- Reduction in total cost of ownership, based on costs associated with
software licensing, system administration and hardware. Sun offers a full
range of systems from 2 to 64 CPUs, which support one operating system,
Solaris. Scale up or down with no migration costs.
- Single platform for file management, eliminating redundant servers and
duplicate files
- Software security and reliability, taking advantage of both Oracle
Collaboration Suite and Solaris OS built-in security benefits
- Reaffirms the companies' joint announcement to make low-cost computing a
reality and extend support for Oracle applications on Sun's full line of
Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 and Linux systems.
- For more information and tools regarding Oracle Collaboration Suite on
Sun,
please visit
www.sun.com/oracle/collaborationsuite.
Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 arrives at the customer site complete
with Oracle Database and Application Server technology. In addition, Sun
offers migration services, hardware consolidation, an upgrade allowance, and
trade-in programs to help provide customers with a quality, low-cost choice
for servers.
For more information on Sun's Upgrade Advantage Program, please visit
www.sun.com/ibb/upgrades/uap2.html.
About Sun Microsystems
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems Inc to its position as a leading
provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the
Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide
Web at www.sun.com/.
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