Leading global e-business players, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, continue to strengthen their long-term alliance as Oracle adopts Sun's latest technology, the Sun Fire server line.
Oracle has announced its adoption of Sun's recently launched UltraSPARC III technology-based Sun Fire server line and the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (OE). Sun Enterprise servers and Solaris 8 OE are both vital parts of Oracle's internal data centre and hosting environments and are used as a development platform for future releases of Oracle software.
With a significant common customer base, the Sun and Oracle relationship is anchored by many years of close collaboration in product development, as well as the use of each other's products internally to help ensure joint customers' satisfaction.
Sun leverages Oracle8i and the Oracle E-Business Suite extensively for internal e-business operations. In turn, Oracle relies on Sun servers as a vital part of its software development, hosting environments and data centre operations. As Oracle recently consolidated worldwide database and applications instances, Sun servers worked in concert with the Oracle E-Business Suite to contribute to Oracle's billion-dollar savings last year.
Stefano Mattiello, managing director of Sun Microsystems SA, says: "The Oracle-Sun alliance will continue to reduce complexity and increase availability for both customers as we persevere with Sun's vision to strive for a single seamless environment."
"The reliability, scalability and performance of Sun systems, as demonstrated by the recent applications benchmark, makes Sun a very important hardware platform for internal use here at Oracle," says Gary Roberts, senior vice president, Global IT, Oracle. "Developing and running our own e-business software on these systems helps us deliver comprehensive and reliable solutions to our customers on the hardware they most often choose themselves."
The Sun Fire 6800 server recently reached a world-record 16 016 concurrent users, with an average response time of 1.011 seconds using the Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark (OASB), making it the fastest hardware platform to support the Oracle E-Business Suite.
Since December 2000, Oracle Japan has served as a beta site for the Sun Fire 6800 server, and has completed compatibility and feasibility testing that held through various configurations.
Oracle's role in beta testing the Sun Fire 6800 server will contribute toward continued joint development efforts with Sun. These efforts have historically resulted in revenue-generating e-business applications and are expected to do so in the future.
"Customers can expect to see higher application performance, round-the-clock availability, and investment protection resulting from advances in these joint development efforts," says Mattiello.
"Oracle is both a significant partner and one of our largest customers," he says, adding that the relationship has already resulted in a variety of technologies that "help customers reduce the time, effort and cost traditionally associated with e-business solutions. Our new servers will play an important role in our continuing endeavours to make e-business simpler for customers."
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