Oracle Capitalizes on Enterprise Demand for Linux Offerings With
Announcement of Oracle8i(TM) on Linux
PR Newswire - July 19, 1999 13:07
Early Adopters Programs Draws Nearly 20,000 Developers
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
Corporation, the number one choice for e-business, today
announced dramatic growth and demand for Oracle on Linux
with strong adoption in both enterprise and general business
markets. Oracle also announced the general availability of
Oracle8i(TM) on Linux, after a successful early adopter's
program.
Since Oracle Corp. announced Oracle8 on Linux, there have
been over 50,000 downloads from Oracle(R) Technology
Network ( technet.oracle.com ). Now, after the
announcement of Oracle8i , there have been nearly 20,000
registrants for early access in the first few weeks. Outside the
development community, Oracle has also seen overwhelming
customer adoption with an excess of 800 paying customers
today -- over half of these orders from enterprise accounts and
the remainder from small to mid-sized businesses and
organizations.
"Until the availability of Oracle database on Linux, we either had
to rely on NT or use one of the shareware database servers
available for Linux," says Jonathan August, President and CEO
of Internection, Inc., a company providing customized Internet
services solutions to businesses, including web hosting and
e-commerce solutions. "Neither solution provided us the security,
performance, manageability or reliability required by our
customers. Oracle brings enterprise credibility and robustness to
our products. As a result, we've gained access to customers
ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 enterprises like
Prudential and Pfizer. Our total revenue since the additional of
Oracle on Linux has increased by 250%."
"Oracle on Linux combines enterprise level reliability, scalability
and performance with a free, robust and well supported
operating system," says Nick Marden, technical director of
e-commerce, Xoom.com, and e-commerce service provider. "It
enables Xoom.com to better understand our members' needs
and respond to them quickly. Oracle on Linux represents an
extraordinary value and it gets the job done."
"Oracle is committed to bringing superior technology to the Linux
community," says Chuck Rozwat, senior vice president of Server
Technologies at Oracle. "Oracle8i on Linux comes with both
Java and XML built right in. Together they offer the most
cost-effective way to deploy scalable Internet applications."
Oracle8i is the first and only database specifically designed for
the Internet. Oracle8i extends Oracle's long-standing technology
leadership in the areas of data management, transaction
processing and data warehousing to the new medium of the
Internet. Oracle8i is the centerpiece of Oracle's Internet
Platform, which also includes Oracle Application Server and
Oracle's Internet development tools.
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for
information management, and the world's second largest software
company. With annual revenues of more than $8.8 billion, the
company offers its database, application server, tools and
application products, along with related consulting, education and
support services, in more than 145 countries around the world.
For more information about Oracle, please call 650-506-7000.
Oracle's World Wide Web address is (URL)
oracle.com.
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