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Oracle To Deliver First Database For Linux Clusters - Oracle8i Parallel Server for Linux - Product Announcement

Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software for e-business, has announced the industry's first clustered database server on the Linux operating system, Oracle8i Parallel Server. Customers will be able to use the low-cost Linux operating system to deploy mission critical, highly available business applications or large-scale data warehouses. Targeted specifically at easing the pressure e-businesses face in today's "always on" Internet environment, Oracle8i Parallel Server on Linux aims to eliminate costly downtime, increase revenue opportunities and ultimately ensure success for a new generation of Linux applications. Oracle also announced future support for Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, the next evolution of Oracle8i Parallel Server, on the Linux platform.

To Linux, Oracle now brings its most mature and trusted high-availability technology for clustered databases. With sub-minute failover capability, Linux environments can achieve new levels of application and data availability. And powered by the new Cache Fusion Architecture, Oracle9i Real Application Clusters will help deliver huge scalability improvements to the Linux platform by providing transparent load balancing and the efficiencies of a shared cache architecture.

Oracle8i Parallel Server on Linux will support up to a 4-node, 8-way cluster. Three Linux vendors, SuSE, TurboLinux and VA Linux Systems, have already tested on Oracle8i Parallel Server running on Linux. Additionally several hardware vendors are working with Oracle to assemble and provide certified clusters to their customer bases. For the initial release, Oracle8i Parallel Server has been validated by Intel and certified by VA Linux Systems and NEC. Several of Oracle's partners have beta customers or demonstrations available at Oracle OpenWorld. For instance, Intel will have a 4-node cluster demo; VA Linux is demonstrating a 4-node cluster with an EMC Symmetrix disk array.

With Oracle8i Parallel Server on Linux, applications running on any server in a cluster instantly have access to all data in a database. Therefore, the different servers act cooperatively to manage unpredictable workloads. In the case of a system failure, applications can continue to run on the remaining nodes with a minimum of interruption or loss of data. Used in combination with other built-in Oracle database features, Linux clusters can be up and running around-the-clock, protecting against downtime resulting from planned maintenance, hardware or software failures, or even operator error.

Oracle Parallel Server on Linux is currently in beta testing with expected production availability by the end of 2000. Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on Linux is expected to be available in the first half of 2001.

Oracle was one of the first vendors to embrace the grass-roots phenomenon of the open-source movement and Linux operating system. In the summer of 1999, Oracle announced Oracle8i for Linux and the platform quickly became a strategic operating system for Oracle. Since that time, more than a half-million copies of Oracle8i have been downloaded for the Linux platform from the Oracle Technology Network.

Oracle has announced all of its major Internet Platform software products on Linux, including Oracle8i Release 3, the latest version of its database; Oracle Internet Application Server with Oracle Portal; and Oracle JDeveloper with Business Components for Java and Oracle Forms, two popular Oracle application development tools. In August 2000, Oracle announced an industry first with the shipment of the first enterprise-edition application server on Linux. Oracle adds to its firsts with Linux with the addition of Oracle8i Parallel Server.