Small to mid-sized companies need no longer worry about having initial capital, IT infrastructure or personnel to undertake a complex application implementation and keep it running over time.
Oracle will be delivering its Oracle Financials and Manufacturing applications to businesses of all sizes over the network using Sun Microsystems` Solaris operating environment as a preferred platform for the pilot program of its Business OnLine application hosting environment.
"Smaller companies will be able to deploy the same software solutions larger competitors have been using - without incurring the risks often associated with these projects," says Duncan Peruch, industry executive - e-commerce at Sun Microsystems RSA. "This will enable businesses to provide corporate information in a secure, accessible and cost efficient manner, helping reduce their total cost of operations," he adds.
Sun is providing Oracle with the systems and services needed to successfully move its enterprise applications to a new delivery model, and leveraging Sun`s dominance in the global Internet Service Provider (ISP) market and extensive relationships with enterprise application vendors. As the Application Service Provider sector grows, Sun will continue to provide the core systems and services necessary to deliver such services securely and reliably.
Peruch explains that Sun introduced Solaris NetBusiness and Solaris for ISPs earlier this year in recognition of ISPs` requirement to rapidly develop and deploy profitable services to their subscribers and users anywhere, anytime, from any networked device, whilst providing new levels of scalability, reliability , ease of use, and dramatically lower administration costs."
As the leading Internet server operating system, the Solaris operating environment can support more users, heavier workloads and greater network traffic than any other competing operating environment. To manage business critical networks, Sun offers SYMON and other enterprise management offerings that allow 24 x 365 management capabilities.
"Sun`s experience running our own hardware and software demonstrates that we can achieve a total system availability of 99.98%. This was accomplished with 46 mission critical servers over a 17 month period, demonstrating the exceptional reliability that has already made Sun and the Solaris operating environment so popular with ISPs," says Masood Jabbar, president, Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems.
"Sun provides the solid foundation that Oracle, with its Business OnLine pilot, and other enterprise application vendors will need as they create new revenue streams as application service providers. Sun and Oracle have a unique alliance in the areas of network computing which, with our investments in Java technology and the Business OnLine environment, is a great extension of our technology relationship."
As part of its strategy to help bring ERP solutions to the mid-market, Sun will provide a complete suite of servers, storage and software, required to deploy a mission critical, scalable environment for Oracle Business OnLine. Hosted in a professionally managed Oracle data centre in San Francisco, the Oracle Business OnLine pilot provides the full complement of Oracle applications for financials, manufacturing, distribution and human resources on a subscription basis. The Sun systems will serve as firewall, web, Domain Name System (DNS), backup, application and database servers.
Sun systems were selected to host the Oracle Business OnLine services because of their proven availability and reliability in mission critical environments. Sun has provided Oracle with the necessary development platform and services to ensure the required application hosting architecture, infrastructure and service levels for Oracle`s Business OnLine.
Oracle Business OnLine subscribers will simply connect to the service using the same technology they use to connect to the Internet. The only software required on users` desktops is a Java-compliant web browser and a network connection, as all components of the applications are hosted on the data centre, composed of Sun Enterprise servers. Business OnLine subscribers avoid both the initial capital expenses for hardware and software incurred by companies hosting their own applications implementations, as well as the ongoing personnel expenses for managing the deployment of these systems.
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