Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems subsidiaries locally are working closely together to ensure benefits for SA customers, following an agreement to allow both companies to enhance their product offerings by exchanging key technologies.
James Greig, alliances manager at Sun Microsystems RSA explains that the agreement allows Sun to combine components of the Oracle8i Internet database into the Sun Solaris operating environment. "This will permit Solaris to support Sun middleware applications running high-volume Internet business applications," he adds.
Oracle will use the core of the Sun Solaris Operating environment to deliver the industry`s first database server appliances.
The agreement allows both companies to distribute and support combined offerings of the Oracle8i database and the Sun Solaris operating environment. Says Greig: "The arrangement enables Sun to provide highly scaleable capabilities for Internet and e-commerce applications by leveraging combined Oracle database technology. This means the Sun Solaris environment will feature enhanced file storage, email, calendaring, directory, session information and system management by taking advantage of database technology."
Oracle will use the Sun Solaris core with the Oracle8i Internet database for its upcoming database server appliance, code-named Raw Iron. Previewed in the US a few weeks ago, Raw Iron is a low-cost, preconfigured database appliance.
Says Des Leverton, product manager: server technologies, Oracle South Africa: "Customers buy an operating system platform so they can run business relevant applications on it. The simple truth is, a large portion of the available functionality of the platform is never required. With Raw Iron, we are including only the components of the operating system platform relevant to running the customer`s business. By tightly integrating the operating environment core and the database, Raw Iron will hide complexity and provide scaleable database servers with low operational costs."
According to Carol Ann Searra, business alliance manager at Oracle SA: "The combination of Oracle8i database and Solaris offers customers the benefit of technology integration, but allows independent usage of either of the products. Through the strategic relationship, Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems have consolidated the promise to bring low-cost solutions to their customers."
Greig believes this is another move forward for Sun in building and enhancing its enterprise software solutions, to grow and cope with customer demands as increasingly, they incorporate the Internet and e-commerce into their business.
Oracle also announced its selection of the Sun Solaris environment as the inaugural operating system for its soon-to-be-launched Application hosting business, Oracle Business OnLine. With the added benefits of the Oracle8i database, the Solaris operating environment creates an operating environment uniquely suited to support Internet based applications.
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