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Sun and Oracle Relationship Continues Strong Momentum
Combination of Industry-Leading Technologies Enable Complete Enterprise
And Dot-Com Solutions
ORACLE OPENWORLD 2000, Booth #1302, SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/
-- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) and Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced wide-spread market acceptance of the Sun and Oracle(R) business solutions and alliance programs. Working together, Sun and Oracle have introduced a variety of programs and technologies that have been instrumental in expanding the Net Economy. Additionally, Sun systems and the Solaris 8 Operating Environment continue to serve as a key development platform for Oracle Internet products, including Oracle9i, the next-generation of Internet computing software, announced this week at Oracle OpenWorld.
By leveraging their respective technological expertise and best of breed products and solutions, these companies have created a tour de force for developers keen to expand the horizons of their e-commerce systems. Over the past year, Sun and Oracle have boosted cooperative programs including:
-- The Oracle and Sun Developer Initiative -- includes heightened cooperation between the two companies to support small dot-coms, and independent and commercial developers jointly reaching tens of thousands of developers.
-- Oracle's platinum sponsorship of Sun Technology Days -- a comprehensive series of two day events highlighting the most current software concepts available to developers. It will take place in 15 cities from October 2000 -- May 2001. This tour, which features Sun and Oracle technology experts, will provide developers with the technology, training and tools necessary for developing competitive applications for the Internet, intranet and enterprise.
-- Sun's platinum sponsorship for the Oracle iDevelop 2000 seminars -- Oracle's premier developer events (May - November 2000) in 23 worldwide cities providing technical content and tutorials on Oracle and Sun products.
-- The Veritas, Oracle and Sun (VOS) initiative -- a three-way strategic alliance to provide a set of well-integrated, high-quality products and services. This initiative focuses dedicated resources in three areas: problem resolution and escalation via a Joint Escalation Center (JEC), joint development and testing, and professional services and education. As a result, this initiative allows customers to rapidly deploy their infrastructures with higher confidence.
-- The Oracle and Sun high availability -- consists of product development collaboration and configuration testing -- providing one of the most highly available e-commerce infrastructures on the market. The two companies are partnering to build best practice guidelines and templates for disaster recovery capabilities, including extending replicated database technology for use in case of catastrophic system failure.
-- SunTone(SM) Certification program -- The SunTone Certification Program for applications provides a "seal of approval" indicating that application providers and service providers, products and services demonstrate the high delivery standards necessary for successful deployment in an application service provider (ASP) environment. Oracle8i achieved SunTone certification in July 2000.
-- Migration Program -- a joint migration program enabling developers to migrate from Microsoft SQL server running on Windows NT to the Oracle database on the Solaris(TM) 8 Operating Environment. The Oracle Migration Workbench version 1.3 is scheduled to ship with every copy of the Solaris 8 Operating Environment. The Oracle Migration Workbench version 1.2.2 for the Solaris platform was first introduced in January 2000. To date, more than 250,000 copies have been shipped to Sun customers. Sun and Oracle plan to launch a series of Internet seminars (iSeminars) to assist developers in migrating databases and web applications from NT to Oracle on the Solaris platform starting in Fall 2000.
"The Sun and Oracle relationship continues to produce new offerings and programs that give our customers access to the critical tools and services they need to succeed," said Michael Bohlig, director, Oracle Business Unit, Sun Microsystems. "The strength of the Oracle and Sun relationship provides customers with highly scalable and secure development and deployment platforms."
"The strength of the Oracle and Sun partnership continues to allow us to provide for our customers the scalable and reliable environment they need to succeed in e-business," said Juan Jones, vice president, System Platforms Division, Oracle. "Sun's highly scalable and secure products served as an excellent development platform for Oracle9i, and therefore promises to be a leading deployment platform for our joint customers' e-business solutions."
Customers who have benefited
The relationship between Sun and Oracle provides customers with sound, proven technology, enabling them to concentrate on the core activity of running their business. Below are some customers who have benefited from the stable technology these integrated offerings and programs deliver.
Oracle Business OnLine
Oracle Business OnLine delivers hosted business services based on the Oracle E-business Suite on the Sun platform. Customers can turn to Business OnLine for Oracle's broad range of applications, from ERP, CRM and exchanges to sales force automation, all sitting on top of a technologically advanced database. Timothy Chou, president, Oracle Business Online stated, "It is no secret that we are a big Sun shop. We use many Sun Enterprise(TM) servers, Sun StorEdge(TM) arrays, as well as the expertise of consultants from Sun Professional Services. Our vision is to have very reliable, high-performance, scalable suppliers that we can depend on to build an infrastructure we use to deliver our services to people. Sun fits this description." Oracle's Business Online services run exclusively on Sun hardware.
Kovair
Kovair provides mission critical business-to-business software that unites relationship specific people, information and applications for strategic customers and partners. "We chose Sun's platform for Oracle because it provided the high availability framework necessary to design a scalable solution quickly," said Kumar Goswami, president and CTO of Kovair. "Time to market is key in the e-commerce software space and Sun's robust platform gave us an edge while developing our Oracle based solutions on the Java(TM) 2 platform."
Qwest Cyber.Solutions
As a large enterprise Applications Service Provider (ASP), Qwest Cyber.Solutions is driven to meet the needs of its customers. The availability and scalability of Sun products have contributed to Qwest Cyber.Solutions success in the ASP market. "Our business demands solid, high performance platforms to deliver business critical application solutions," said John Charters, president & CEO of Qwest Cyber.Solutions. "As a premier platform for ASPs hosting Oracle database technology, Sun provides the reliability and price competitiveness that enables Qwest Cyber.Solutions to offer superior value services."
CoreCommerce
CoreCommerce is an Independent Software Provider (ISV) and participates in many of Sun's iForce Initiatives, such as, Sun Startup Essentials, Sun Startup Community Portal, the SunTone Certification program. "The combination of Sun's technical strategy and design with its business programs and iForce partners has created an environment which helped us go-to-market in record time," said Granger B. Whitelaw, chief of sales and marketing officer, CoreCommerce. "The Oracle8i database and its strong performance on Sun servers, has enabled CoreCommerce to deliver a strong, highly scalable, easily tailorable e-commerce solution suite to our customers."
Additional Co-marketing Programs
-- Sun iForce(TM) Startup Community -- delivers an industry first marketplace designed to address dot-com customer requirements through cross-market collaboration. Oracle is a participant in the ISV offering extension of the Sun Startup(SM) Essentials and iForce Startup Accelerator programs. Sun is providing Oracle technology to its extended customer community by jointly shipping development licenses of the Oracle Internet platform, including the Oracle8i database, with the Solaris 8 Operating Environment. This year over 300,000 copies of Oracle8i have shipped with the Solaris 8 platform.
-- Oracle's Storage Compatibility Program -- Sun announced that Sun StorEdge(TM) Network Data Replicator (SNDR) software has successfully completed Oracle's Storage Compatibility Program (OSCP). Oracle customers can now use Sun's software to replicate data between physically separated servers, in real time and from any distance, thereby protecting critical information in the event of a disaster.
-- Java Technology Development -- Oracle and Sun have collaborated on Java technology since 1996. Oracle is a member of the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP) Executive Committee for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE(TM)) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Executive Committee members are responsible for approving the passage of specifications through key points of the JCP and for reconciling discrepancies between specifications and their associated test suites. Oracle is also a licensee of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to dot-com their businesses. With $15.7 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com .
NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, iForce, Sun Startup Essential, SunTone, Sun Startup Essentials, Java Community Process, Sun StorEdge, J2EE, J2SE and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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