IBM and Oracle Collaborate to Advance Project Monterey; Oracle Plans to Deliver Key Technologies within AIX, Monterey/64
BusinessWire, Friday, November 12, 1999 at 11:56
SOMERS, N.Y. and REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov.
12, 1999--IBM and Oracle today announced a comprehensive initiative
in support of AIX and Monterey/64(a). As part of this initiative, IBM
and Oracle will offer Oracle Internet Directory within AIX and
Monterey/64 as a directory option to customers. Furthermore, Oracle
expects to port its database and application suites, currently
available on AIX, to Monterey/64.
This collaboration significantly advances Project Monterey, which
is expected to provide customers with a secure and reliable UNIX
platform from which to deploy their critical e-business applications.
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"By offering Oracle technology and applications with AIX and
Monterey/64, customers will have increased choice and flexibility
to implement new e-business solutions quickly and easily," said
Rajiv Samant, general manager, UNIX, IBM. "The agreement marks an
expansion of the business and technology relationship between IBM
and Oracle on AIX and Monterey/64. The expected addition of
Oracle's database and application suites is a further milestone
in making the Project Monterey product line the leading UNIX
platform for customers and software providers."
"The integration of Oracle technology into AIX and Monterey/64
moves us toward solving several key challenges our customers face
in becoming effective e-businesses," said Michael Rocha, senior
vice president of Platform Technologies, Oracle Corporation.
"Together, Oracle and IBM are providing a scalable, reliable
solution across a broad spectrum of computing architectures that
creates lasting stability, quality and reliability for our
customers. This agreement helps make AIX and Monterey/64 a
preferred Oracle platform for its strategic enterprise UNIX on
IBM's POWER and Intel's IA-64 architectures."
"Oracle's support for Monterey/64 is a tremendous step forward in
delivering the industry's leading enterprise UNIX platform for
Itanium processor-based systems," said Doug Michels, SCO's CEO
and president. "We are delighted to see Oracle expand its support
to all Project Monterey UNIX systems as it enables ISVs to have
direct access to the largest commercial UNIX systems marketplace
for their applications."
"Oracle's commitment further boosts Monterey's rapid progress
towards becoming the de facto, multi-vendor UNIX for the IA-64
community," said Andrew Butler, research director, UNIX and
Mid-range Server Strategies, Gartner Group Europe.
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These software offerings are expected to exploit the performance
and scalability features of Monterey/64 and are expected to be
available for Monterey/64 in the second half of 2000. The Oracle
Internet Directory is expected to be available for AIX by the end of
1999. It is anticipated that IBM OEMs for AIX and/or Monterey/64,
including Acer, Bull, CETIA, Compaq, IBM, ICL, Samsung and Unisys,
will now have the capability to distribute Oracle software on their
platforms.
In addition, Oracle and IBM plan to work together to exploit the
success of the Project Monterey product line through customer visits,
ISV programs and business shows.
Joint Commitment to Industry Standards
In addition to the collaboration on Project Monterey, both IBM
and Oracle are demonstrating their commitment to industry standards
for UNIX, including secure directory services through the Directory
Interoperability Forum (DIF), founded in July by IBM, Oracle, Novell,
Data Connection Limited, Lotus Development Corp. and ISOCOR. The DIF
was created to speed development and deployment of directory-enabled
applications that run across different computing environments. In
addition, Oracle is working with IBM on the UNIX Developers
Guide-Programming Interfaces (UDG-PI) guidelines for systems using the
Intel IA-64 microprocessors. The UDG-PI guidelines will help system
manufacturers and software developers reduce development, test and
maintenance costs.
Project Monterey Background
Announced in October 1998, Project Monterey is a major UNIX
operating system initiative led by IBM, along with SCO and Intel. The
objective of the Project Monterey initiative is to establish a volume,
enterprise-class UNIX product line that runs across Intel IA-32 and
IA-64 processors and IBM's POWER processors in systems that range from
departmental to large data center servers. As part of this initiative,
a volume UNIX operating system is being developed for Intel's IA-64
processors using technologies from IBM's AIX and NUMA-Q brands and
SCO's UnixWare. Many leading hardware and software providers have
announced support for the Project Monterey initiative.
Editor's Note: IBM news releases and fact sheets are available on
the World Wide Web at ibm.com. Additional information on
IBM and Project Monterey can be found at
ibm.com.
For more information about Oracle, please call 650/506-7000. Oracle's
World Wide Web address is oracle.com.
AIX is a trademark or registered trademark of IBM Corporation.
Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle Internet Directory
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation.
UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group.
All others are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
companies.
(a) Monterey/64 is the code name used for the Project Monterey UNIX
operating system for the Intel IA-64 platform.
CONTACT: IBM Corporation
Jennifer Kinsmann, 914/766-3369
kinsmann@us.ibm.com
or
Oracle Corporation
Amy Mack, 650/607-2552
amack@us.oracle.com
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