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AT ORACLE: Briefs
Oracle Wins Best Linux Database Award
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), the free, starter edition of Oracle's world-renowned database, has received the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for "Best Database Solution." The LinuxWorld Magazine 2006 awards were presented at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston, where an independent panel of Linux and open source industry professionals recognized Oracle Database XE as the most innovative and important database solution running on Linux.
"It's an honor to be recognized as the best database solution on the Linux platform," says Monica Kumar, Oracle's director of Linux product marketing. "This award underscores Oracle's long-standing commitment to the Linux and developer communities. With Oracle Database XE, developers, DBAs, students, and ISVs [independent software vendors] can realize the benefits of using enterprise-class database technology for free."
Oracle Database XE, which had its production debut in February 2006, is generally available on a wide range of 32-bit Linux operating systems, including Mandriva Linux 2006 Power Pack+, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and SUSE Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Windows.
Oracle on Demand, Data Center Run x86 64-bit Linux
Further extending Oracle's leadership and commitment to Linux, Oracle On Demand services and Oracle Data Center are powered by the x86 64-bit architecture running Linux. Oracle
E-Business Suite On Demand and Oracle Technology On Demand customers such as Thermos, Cabot Microelectronics, Tropicana, and Unocal benefit from the high performance, reliability, and security provided by Oracle software on a low-cost Linux platform.
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Oracle on Linux Climbs 95 Percent
Oracle Database grew at a rate of 95 percent and now holds more than 80 percent of the overall relational database management system (RDBMS) market on Linux, according to the recent Gartner Research report Market Share: Relational Database Management Systems by Operating System, Worldwide, 2005.
"With more than 80 percent market share, Oracle is by far the database of choice
for Linux platforms. Clustering database applications on low-cost Linux servers delivers the performance, scalability, and reliability today's businesses are looking for,"
says Willie Hardie, Oracle's vice president of database product marketing. Gartner also reported that Linux grew the fastest of all the RDBMS platforms (84 percent), driven primarily by Oracle and the maturation and user acceptance of the Linux platform as a mission-critical RDBMS platform.
Oracle Fusion Middleware Shows Impressive Growth on Linux
Oracle Fusion Middleware, a comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware products, is the fastest-growing middleware suite and continues to experience exceptional growth with an increasing number of organizations choosing open, standards-based technologies that lay the foundation for service-oriented architectures (SOA). Between January 2005 and March 15, 2006, nearly 50 percent of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 shipments were on Linux, compared to approximately 30 percent of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 shipments. Similarly, product downloads from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) demonstrate the same trend, with nearly 40 percent of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 downloads on Linux versus nearly 25 percent of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 on Linux.
"We have a long history of working closely with our customers to deliver the best solutions at the lowest costs," says Rick Schultz, vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware product marketing. "These statistics show that Oracle Fusion Middleware on Linux increasingly satisfies the needs of organizations across a wide range of industries to drive down costs while delivering critical middleware functionality."
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"As the leading enterprise software vendor driving adoption of the Linux platform, Oracle continues to test and deploy software on the latest architectures to give our customers all of the cost and performance advantages it delivers," says Juergen Rottler, executive vice president of Oracle On Demand and Support Services.
At the Oracle Data Center, Oracle On Demand customers have their mission-critical, transactional applications deployed and managed by Oracle. Oracle On Demand simplifies enterprise computing by eliminating the challenges of handling software upgrades, patches, and day-to-day maintenance. Oracle On Demand customers have access to the latest capabilities and pay a predictable monthly fee.
Customers can also take advantage of Oracle on 64-bit Linux with the availability of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 for x86 64-bit Linux, Intel's Titanium, and IBM's POWER-based Linux systems.
NextAction Migrates 7-Terabyte Data Warehouse to Oracle on Linux
NextAction, the fastest growing and leading provider of cooperative data solutions for retailers, has migrated from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle Database 10g on Linux to power its 7-terabyte (and growing) cooperative behavioral marketing data warehouse.
NextAction's data warehouse continuously captures customer and transaction data from its clients. After analyzing this collective data, NextAction produces targeted lists of the most profitable group of customers. NextAction deployed Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Partitioning, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g on an HP DL 585 server with four AMD Opteron processors running Novell SUSE Linux.
With Oracle on Linux, NextAction consolidated its data warehouse system down to a single Oracle Database instance on a single hardware server, with four processors from eight database instances powered by four hardware servers with four processors apiece.
NextAction's data warehouse powered by Oracle on Linux also enabled delivery of increased performance results, including reducing a query from four-and-a-half hours down to eight minutes. Prior to running Oracle, some of NextAction's queries would take days to process—waiting in queue until the system was capable of processing the queries.
COCC Saves 40 Percent with Oracle Apps on Linux
COCC, a leading provider of next-generation technology services for financial institutions, is relying on Oracle Financial Management, a part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, and Oracle Database running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell to provide community banks and credit unions with advanced financial management services at their desktops.
Headquartered in Avon, Connecticut, COCC provides a state-of-the-art technology platform to more than 140 community banks and credit unions in the Northeast. To help ensure the secure transfer of vital, private, financial data, COCC needed a highly available, reliable IT infrastructure that could also improve efficiencies and deliver significant cost benefits.
Migrating to Intel boxes running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server enabled COCC to significantly decrease system downtime associated with upgrades, freeing up valuable DBA time for more-strategic projects. As a result of the migration, COCC was able to reduce its hardware costs by 40 percent and decrease its software licensing and labor costs significantly each year.
3n Selects Oracle on Linux for Mass Notification
3n (National Notification Network), a leading provider of mass notification systems, depends upon Oracle 10g infrastructure software on Linux to help ensure that enterprises, government agencies and municipalities, and schools can communicate reliably with their constituents. The 3n mass notification system improves customers' communication processes by enabling one person via a single call or Web browser to deliver critical information to thousands of people anywhere, any time, and on any device—including phones, e-mail, instant messenger, Short Message Service (SMS), fax, computer, PDAs, and BlackBerrys.
Organizations count on 3n as an effective service for business continuity, emergency response and management, and daily business activities when they need to communicate effectively and reliably with a small or large audience in a short time.
Recognizing the crucial need for a highly reliable technology infrastructure, 3n upgraded to Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), and Oracle Application Server 10g. It operates an Oracle database cluster of Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 along with EMC storage-attached network to power its Java-based InstaCom application. In addition, 3n utilizes Oracle Data Guard to replicate data from its data center in California to a standby system located in the Rocky Mountains, thereby providing service continuity in the event of a complete data center outage.
Leading ISVs Expand Support for Oracle on Linux
Kronos, McKesson, and Yantra are among more than 1,500 leading
independent software vendors (ISVs) using Oracle on Linux to deliver business-critical solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions.
"ISVs are driving demand for the Oracle on Linux platform as their infrastructure of choice for delivering critical applications," says Robert Shimp, Oracle's vice president of technology marketing. "With Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux, ISVs are able to deliver better value without sacrificing on the enterprise-class features, like high availability, that customers have come to rely upon."
Oracle has introduced a number of initiatives to help ISVs build and deploy applications on the Linux platform. In 2003, Oracle launched the Linux Business Development Initiative to provide ISVs with technical advice, migration best practices, training, and marketing assistance to speed time to market for their Linux-based applications.
Oracle's continuing commitment to Linux has made it the leading enabler of database software on Linux. Since introducing the first commercial relational database to run on Linux in 1998, Oracle has been committed to furthering Linux adoption across the enterprise. Support has been a hallmark of the Oracle Linux organization since June 2002, when Oracle began providing code-level support for the entire software platform, including the operating system.
With more than 9,000 Oracle developers using Linux infrastructure to develop products, Oracle continues to provide the technology leadership to enable the Linux platform for enterprise applications and grid solutions. Oracle also has a Linux Kernel Group dedicated to working with Linux vendors to provide fixes and develop new functionality to benefit the Linux community.
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