"Our customers rely on Oracle9i Real Application Clusters to provide them with an e-business solution that is scalable and reliable," said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Platform Alliances, Platform Technologies Division, Oracle Corporation. "Using Oracle's clustering technology, applications can be clustered and scaled without modification. With the introduction of Solaris 9, customers can upgrade their operating system to further drive up service levels and take advantage of dramatically improved performance without any changes to their existing Oracle applications."

Oracle9i Real Application Clusters allows customers to scale their applications in a cluster that acts as a single database. The feature uses the resource management facility of Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02, available with Solaris 9, to enhance server utilitizion of the cluster environment. This facility allows users to failover servers in less than 60 seconds.

Oracle and Sun share a long-standing relationship and they continue to team to provide jointly engineered and supported infrastructure solutions to ease customer acquisition and deployment. Oracle and Sun help ensure that customers have easy access to and support of a complete solution either through Certified Configurations of the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle9i Real Application Clusters or simply through the Oracle9i Database Enterprise Edition software that ships with every Solaris 9 shipment. As a result, both Sun and Oracle provide organizations with complete solutions that allow customers to focus on their core business, and therefore increase productivity, maximize revenue and profit, and significantly enhance customer acquisition, satisfaction, and retention.

"As the ultimate platform architecture for building and deploying open, enterprise-ready Web services, Solaris 9 extends its performance improvements across Oracle's Database infrastructure as well as applications suite," said Doug Kaewert, Vice President, Sun Developer Network, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Together, Oracle clustering technology on the Solaris 9 OE improves support for continuous availability driving service levels up and costs down."

About the Solaris 9 Operating Environment
The Solaris Operating Environment (OE) is the premiere operating environment for the enterprise. With over 300 new features, Solaris 9 is the most scalable, available, manageable and secure service delivery platform for the networked world. By focusing on industry standards, the Internet, innovation and integration, Solaris 9 delivers a documented lower cost of operation. Solaris is the leading UNIX operating environment with 64 percent market share in shipments and 54 percent revenue share, according to Gartner Dataquest's "1Q02 Servers Quarterly Statistics."

The Solaris 9 OE is available on the SPARC Architecture platforms and supports more than 12,000 applications. Customers have access to many freeware programs, including utilities, productivity tools and development tools. In addition, the Solaris 9 OE offers an integrated Sun ONE Application Server and Sun ONE Directory Server, along with access to the Oracle 8i database.

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