Bringing the Power of Oracle Database to.NET Andy Mendelsohn Senior Vice President, Database Server Technologies Oracle Corporation

Oracle Database 10 g is the Market Leader

Source: IDC November The RDBMS Top 10: License Sales Analysis and Market Forecast, Oracle: #1 RDBMS Vendor Overall

Oracle Leads Windows RDBMS Growth RDBMS Growth on Windows Operating System Source: “The RDBMS Top 10: License Sales Analysis and Market Forecast, ”, IDC, Nov 2004

7 Oracle’s Commitment to Windows Windows Server 2003 Windows 2000 Windows NT Windows XP Windows x64

Engineering Close collaboration with MS Engineering teams (OS, ADO.NET, VS.NET..) Access to pre-release and beta drops of Microsoft products Marketing VSIP Premier Marketing partner Oracle sponsoring Microsoft events Microsoft sponsoring Oracle events Support Microsoft Premier Support Agreement Collaboration of support teams Oracle | Microsoft Relationship

Oracle 10 g Grid Computing Strategy

Oracle 10g Goals  Highest quality of service – Availability, performance, scalability, security  Half the Cost  Easiest to Manage – 50% or more reduction in administration costs  Most complete, integrated database

I/T Challenges  Islands of Computing Power – Expensive Systems, Underutilized Capacity  Fragile and Complex Systems – Complex to Manage, Not Highly Available  Fragmented Information – Difficult to Take Business Decisions  Manual Business Processes – High Cost, Inefficient Organizations

Oracle’s Strategy  Enable Grid Computing – Use Low Cost Servers and Storage  With Intelligent Software – Database Servers and Application Servers  And Automated Management Tools – Reducing Errors and Lowering Costs  To Modernize I/T Infrastructure – Highest QoS and Flexibility, Lower Cost

Oracle Grid Computing  Highest Quality of Service and Flexibility  Half the Cost  Easiest to Manage Storage Grid Database Grid Application Server Grid Grid Control

Database Server Grid – Real Application Clusters  Runs on standard, low cost servers and storage  Runs Real Applications  Fault tolerant  Capacity on demand  Proven Technology HRFinancialsDSS

Oracle Database 10g: Easiest To Manage  46% less DBA time than DB2 UDB 8.2  30% less DBA time than Microsoft SQL Server  Saves up to $50,000 per year per DBA Source: The Edison Group

Oracle Database 10g Awards  eWeek Analyst Choice Award and Top 10 Product of 2004  I.E. Readers’ Choice Award: Best DBMS for Data Warehousing  CRN recommends 5/5 stars  DM Review 2004 Winner of Readers Award for Database and Data Store  InfoWorld “Database of the Year” 2004

Oracle Database 10g “Sophisticated Simplicity” - Sean McCown, InfoWorld

Oracle Database 10 g Windows.NET Developer Strategy

Oracle Database 10g: Enhanced Developer Productivity  Optimized data access providers with full support for Oracle  Server side development in.NET  Integration with Development Tools

Windows COM Data Access VisualBasic MS Office ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) C/C++Applications ODBC Active Server Pages Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O) COMAutomationFeature (MS Office, VB, Any COM Server) Any COM Client Oracle Database OLE DB

Oracle’s Commitment to.NET Mid NET Framework 1.1.NET Framework 1.0 1H 2005 ODP.NET Oracle Developer Tools for VS.NET ODP.NET Oracle Developer Tools for VS.NET Oracle Database Extensions for.NET Oracle Data Provider for.NET(ODP.NET).NET Framework 2.0

.NET Data Access VB.NET C# ASP.NET Any other.NET Language Oracle Data Provider For.NET Oracle Database Extensions for.NET for.NET (VB.NET, C#, C++)

Oracle Data Provider for.NET  Fully compliant, high performance ADO.NET provider  Supports advanced database features, e.g. Grid, XML DB, Security and Native Data Types.  Support Microsoft Transaction Server/Enterprise Services (Transactions)  Can be used with Oracle 8i, 9i or 10g Database Server on any platform (Windows, Unix, Linux..)

Oracle Database Extensions for.NET  Write.NET stored procedures for Oracle on Windows  Leverage existing.NET experience  Use your choice of C#, VB.NET or Managed C++  Easy deployment: Visual Studio.NET wizard

Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio.NET  New tightly integrated toolset for VS.NET  Easy to learn and intuitive  Leverage existing VS.NET experience  Stay in VS.NET environment for project lifecycle  Powerful features that enhance productivity

D E M O N S T R A T I O N Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio.NET

Example.NET Production Customers  Thomson Financial – Financial information research – Leverages RAC, DataGuard, XML DB, ODP.NET  Ohio Savings Bank – Customer Call Center & Mortgage processing – Leverages RAC, ASM, DataGuard, ODP.NET  Dell Corporation – Order Management – Leverages XML DB with ODP.NET  Credit Suisse First Boston – Mission Critical system spanning three locations – Leverages RAC, DataGuard, XML DB, ODP.NET

“ Integrating ODP.NET into our Data Access Layer was easy and straightforward. Using it together with Oracle 10g's grid computing and RAC architecture, we were able to take advantage of both programming features such as XMLType and multiple reference cursors, along with the power and high availability of the grid ” -Jason Lin Ohio Savings Bank

Oracle: Best Database for Windows and.NET  Oracle brings the power of Oracle Database to Windows and.NET developers  Oracle is committed to making Windows developers more productive when using Oracle Database  Oracle has the best tools for whichever development platform you choose

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Next Steps  Session: Oracle Dev Tools for Visual Studio.NET Wednesday, 10:30am, Room 2002  Visit Oracle at VS Live! Booth #707 Live demos with Oracle on Windows and.NET experts  Download Oracle software for Windows and.NET