Johannesburg, 12 Nov 1998
Here at Oracle OpenWorld, Hewlett-Packard Company today announced HP 9000 Enterprise Server and HP NetServer platform support for Oracle8i, Oracle Corp.`s development and deployment database platform for the Internet. HP and Oracle continue to expand their portfolio of best-in-class, high availability (HA) and scalability joint solutions for mission-critical, Internet-based computing. By combining HP`s industry-leading enterprise servers with Oracle8i, customers will be able to easily and confidently expand their business across the Internet.
By running Oracle8i on HP 9000 Enterprise Servers and HP NetServer systems, customers can obtain the reliability and scalability to better manage industrial-strength applications and high-volume, mission-critical transactions across the Internet and the enterprise.
Oracle is a strategic partner in HP`s 5nines:5minutes program. HP and Oracle announced plans to extend HP`s Mission Critical Server Suites to deliver a 99.95 percent uptime commitment to the database level as the first step toward achieving 99.999 percent end-to-end availability (announced in June, slated for general availability in 1999). This 99.95 percent systems- and database-availability solution will be packaged with the integrated HP and Oracle mission-critical support services offered through the HP and Oracle Services Integration Program. Together, HP and Oracle provide a leading solution for customers looking to deploy reliable, highly available, mission-critical applications on the Internet.
HP and Oracle are working together to optimize the performance of Oracle8i to provide high performance and scalability for business-critical OLTP and data-warehouse solutions on HP 9000 Enterprise Servers. For example, HP provides the highest Oracle single-node TPC-C performance with its HP 9000 Enterprise Servers (see Nov. 3 release, "HP Earns Highest OLTP Results").
Oracle8i, combined with HP`s award-winning HP NetServer systems running Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R), provides customers a quick and easy way to implement and deploy data marts. Combined with HP 9000 Enterprise Servers, customers running Oracle8i have maximum headroom to scale to multiterabyte data warehouses.
"Optimizing Oracle8i for our industry-leading 64-bit, HP-UX(1) operating environment reinforces HP and Oracle`s ongoing efforts for delivering highly available, scalable and high-performance solutions for mission-critical computing," said Bill Russell, HP vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Systems and Software Group.
"The next paradigm of computing is Internet computing. Oracle8i is the database to meet the requirements for Internet computing," said Gary Bloom, executive vice president of Oracle`s System Products Division. "As these companies take advantage of the Internet, it drives higher and higher requirements for fault tolerance, high performance and high availability. HP-UX and HP NetServer systems are outstanding platforms to deploy the Oracle8i database for Internet computing."
These efforts will empower companies to support thousands of users with fewer servers and to reduce total cost of ownership while ensuring enterprise scalability, reliability, performance, security and manageability for mission-critical enterprise and Internet computing.
U.S. Availability
HP 9000 Enterprise Server and HP NetServer support will be available upon availability of Oracle8i.
About Oracle
Oracle8i is the latest generation of the world`s leading database and the first designed specifically to be an Internet development and deployment platform. Oracle8i enhances Oracle8(TM)`s industry-leading technology with specific features that make it extremely easy to create robust and scalable Internet and corporate Intranet applications. Oracle8I also extends Oracle`s proven technology leadership in the areas of transaction processing, data warehousing, and high availability to handle the demanding performance, business intelligence, and continuous access needs of Internet users.
About HP
Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. It is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer-related revenue in excess of 35.4 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year.
Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.
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