Sun Partner Relationship

For more than two decades, Sun and Oracle have collaborated to deliver innovative solutions to global enterprises. With a shared commitment to open, standards-based computing and leading innovations such as Grid Computing, BIDW, Siebel CRM, Java, and Open Source Solaris OS, Oracle and Sun are uniquely positioned to deliver robust, scalable, high performance solutions.

Oracle and Sun's common technology vision creates competitive advantage in organizations of all sizes, in all industries. Together, we deliver integrated enterprise and data center-class solutions, applications, industry specific solutions, and superior decision support and data warehousing environments.

Joint Initiatives

Oracle and Sun work together in many areas. Below are some of our current joint initiatives:

Sun Oracle Database Machine
The world's first OLTP database machine with Sun FlashFire Technology
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Oracle Optimized Warehouse Solutions for Sun
Sun and Oracle are delivering optimized data warehousing solutions in support of Oracle's Optimized Warehouse Initiative (OWI), that combine the Oracle Database with Sun servers, Sun StorageTek arrays and the Solaris OS.

Oracle Database 11g Solutions on Sun
- White Paper: Sun Reference Architecture for Oracle 11g Grid
  With over 3000 lab hours invested, this 3rd generation reference architecture provides cost savings, superb performance, and high availability with the comfort of knowing all the individual elements have been synthesized into an integrated architecture by industry experts.
- Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA)
Oracle Siebel CRM on Sun
- Sun BluePrint: Consolidating Oracle's Siebel CRM on Sun
  Maximize system utilization and minimize power consumption and data center floorspace by consolidating the web, gateway/application and database tiers of Oracle Siebel CRM 8 on Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers.

	News & Events
	Oracle OpenWorld 2009 Visit Sun at Oracle OpenWorld 2009. eSeminar: Better Service Levels, Faster ROI - Sun Optimized Oracle CRM Join an expert panel from Ziff Davis, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle at this educational eSeminar and learn how to lower costs while increasing customer loyalty. Oracle Unveils Exadata V2: The First Database Machine for OLTP (15th September 2009) Oracle Delivers World Record Result for a Two Processor System Running SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark (4th September 2009) Oracle® Fusion Middleware Delivers World Record Single-Node Result on Sun SPARC Enterprise® Server with SPECjAppServer2004 Benchmark (21st Jul 2009)

Customer Successes

The Research Foundation of State University of New York
The Research Foundation of State University of New York chose to run its Oracle applications suite on a flexible, scalable Sun solution that includes Sun Fire server and Sun StorageTek technologies.
"We depend on Oracle Applications software to serve our community. Sun understands our needs and has been a very good partner to us. The team has brought us a full solution that is helping us provide excellent support for our programs as we continue to grow."
— Jon Busdiecker, Director of Infrastructure Services, The Research Foundation of State University of New York

Yuntaa
This Belgian Web 2.0 company is running a highly scalable Oracle Database 11g solution based on a Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server. (09/08)

Ebay
eBay drives explosive growth using Sun technology and Oracle. (09/08)