Mass Partners Turn Out for Oracle Database 10g Beta Program
More than 200 Partners Thoroughly Test and Support Early Production Release of Oracle(r) Database 10g
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sep. 9, 2003 - Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced strong participation of independent software vendors, system integrators and hardware vendors in its beta program to thoroughly develop and test joint solutions, based on an early release of Oracle(r) Database 10g (see related press release). More than 200 companies - including 170 Systems, Actuate Corporation, BearingPoint, Bio-Key International, Compuware Corporation, Egenera, NEC, Tomax, Topspin Communications, TUSC, Vertex Inc., and Waters Corporation - are working closely with Oracle to drive the strategic direction of Oracle Database 10g in order to meet customer needs.
"What Oracle is doing with its flagship Oracle Database 10g and grid computing is analogous to the revolution that occurred with the Web browser and the Internet," said Krish Ramakrishnan, chief executive officer at Topspin. "Oracle Database10g will be the killer application that drives the commercialization of grids into the mainstream enterprise."
Hands on experience with Oracle Database 10g enables partners to better address manageability, performance, reliability, security and workloads when developing solutions on all major operating systems. The program participants are previewing new Oracle Database 10g features such as Automatic Storage Management, integrated clusterware and cluster workload management, as well as testing Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g.
170 Systems provides advanced, Web-deployed solutions that enable e-businesses to capture and manage all of their information online, collaborate and optimize intra-company and B2B transactions. As an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner of the Oracle PartnerNetwork who has supported the Oracle Database since version 6.0, 170 Systems has worked closely with Oracle to help ensure the tightest possible integration.
"Our products are about reducing costs and streamlining core, critical business processes. The underlying database infrastructure needs to scale easily and efficiently to ensure optimal utilization of resources and minimize costs. Oracle Database 10g will help our customers do just that," said Karl Büttner, co-founder and chairman, 170 Systems, Inc.
Platform Computing, the largest independent grid software and services provider, helps over 1,600 customers worldwide plan, build, run and manage grids to optimize IT infrastructure.
"With over 11 years experience in grid computing, we understand the business need to streamline and coordinate all IT resources to accelerate time to results," said Ian Baird, chief business architect, at Platform. "With our integrated offering, we can extend our grid solutions to the database to help Oracle 10g users simplify and automate their business flows. This provides a single point of control for all jobs, as well as optimization of distributed resources across a virtualized, heterogeneous environment."
Today's highest growth and highly regulated industries rely on Waters Corporation, an Oracle PartnerNetwork Certified Partner, to help them succeed. Its high performance liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, thermal analysis and rheology products and services are being used in labs around the world to push the boundaries of analytical science.
"With Oracle Database 10g embedded into our scientific software applications, we expect to provide our customers with a higher degree of functionality, manageability, and scalability, while minimizing the administrative resource requirements," said John Swallow, principal engineer, Waters Corporation.
Partners interested in receiving early access to Oracle Database 10g can join the Oracle PartnerNetwork 10g Partner Initiative (see separate press release), and apply for the Early Access for Partner option.
About Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small servers to the biggest SMP servers and from clusters to enterprise grids. It features automated tuning and management capabilities that make it easy and cost effective to operate. Its unique ability to natively manage all your data from traditional business information to OLAP, to XML documents, to spatial/location information make it the ideal choice to power Online Transaction Processing, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Content Management applications.
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