Dave Dargo Vice President Linux Program Office Oracle Corporation

Oracle’s Linux Strategy And Roadmap

Linux Retrospective  Making Linux ready for the enterprise – Code changes – Certification changes – Support changes – Industry changes – Implementation changes  Long process over the past three years with our partners

Reference Points  Oracle provides direct fixes to the Linux kernel via unique support relationships with Red Hat and SuSE  Oracle develops many of the features that find their way into the Linux kernel  Oracle is transforming itself into a Linux company  Oracle is the largest technology company fully adopting Linux

Then and Now March 2002September 2003 No enterprise-class Linux distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE SLES8 No enterprise-class technical support Integrated, single point of technical support from Oracle; code level support for the entire stack Few ISV AppsOver 3500 ISVs on Oracle/Linux Few downloads Over a Million downloads of Oracle products on Linux Mostly tire-kicking among customer base Marquee references, e.g. Merrill Lynch, Amazon.com, Electronic Arts; widespread interest No internal adoptionRunning our business on Linux OpportunisticStrategic partnerships with Red Hat and UnitedLinux

World Record 4-way TPC-C Source: Transaction Processing Council, as of September 5, 2003: HP Integrity rx5670, 136, tpmC, $4.09/tpmC, available 12/31/03. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 EE 64bit, HP Integrity rx5670, 121,065 tpmC, $4.79/tpmC, available 8/1/03. Oracle on Linux beats SQL Server on Windows on both performance and price! Oracle on HP Computers

World Record 4-way TPC-R Source: As of October 11, 2002, Oracle9i Database, Release 2, Enterprise Edition on Dell PowerEdge 6600, 4-way SMP, Intel Xeon MP, 1.6 GHz, 1 MB L3 cache, 4 GB main memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 World Record on 4-way Linux systems Oracle on Dell Computers

World Record Linux SjAS2002 Source: SPEC, as of September 8, 2003: all in MultiNode Category: Oracle Application Server 10g, 1, $ BEA WebLogic 8.1 SP1 on HP DL360, 1, $ Oracle BEAT BEA on identical hardware both performance and price! Oracle on HP Computers

World Record DualNode SjAS2002 Source: SPEC, as of September 8, 2003: all in MultipleNode Category: Oracle Application Sever 10g on HP ML370G3 cluster, $ BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 on HP-UX using HP rx5670, Oracle BEAT BEA on both performance and price with half the CPUs ! Oracle on HP Computers

Best Price on SjAS2002 Source: SPEC, as of September 8, 2003: best price-performance, MultipleNode category: Oracle Application Server 10g, 1, MultipleNode, MultipleNode. BEA WebLogic 8.1 SP1 on HP DL360, 1, MultipleNode, $ WebSphere Application Server on eServer xSeries 360 cluster, MultipleNode, $ MultipleNode. Oracle on HP Computers

Common Question When will Linux be ready for the enterprise?

“Linux has hit a tipping point where it is good enough for most workloads on commodity hardware.” Ted Schadler Forrester Research, May 2003

Oracle on Linux: In The Enterprise

Common Question It ’ s enterprise capable, but what ’ s next?

Automate Consolidate Standardize Consolidation and Standardization

Islands of Computation

What Is Your Standard? Solaris Oracle HP-UX Oracle 8 i TRU-64 Oracle 9 i Oracle

Current Inventory Solaris Oracle HP-UX Oracle 8 i TRU-64 Oracle 9 i

Standard Selection Linux Oracle Oracle Apps Linux Oracle Oracle Apps Linux Oracle Oracle Apps Linux Oracle Linux Oracle Linux Oracle Linux Oracle PeopleSoft Linux Oracle SAP Linux Oracle Custom Apps

The Grid

Then and Now March 2002September 2003 No enterprise-class Linux distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE SLES8 No enterprise-class technical support Integrated, single point of technical support from Oracle; code level support for the entire stack Few ISV AppsOver 3500 ISVs on Oracle/Linux Few downloads Over a Million downloads of Oracle products on Linux Mostly tire-kicking among customer base Marquee references, e.g. Merrill Lynch, Amazon.com, Electronic Arts; widespread interest No internal adoptionRunning our business on Linux OpportunisticStrategic partnerships with Red Hat and UnitedLinux

Now and Next September 2003Next Steps Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE SLES8 Continued deployment of standard distributions Integrated, single point of technical support from Oracle; code level support for the entire stack Automated analysis and prevention of known problems through production assessments Over 3500 ISVs on Oracle/LinuxComplete product offerings on Oracle/Linux Over a Million downloads of Oracle products on Linux Ubiquitous distribution and availability Marquee references, e.g. Merrill Lynch, Amazon.com, Electronic Arts; widespread interest Broad acceptance and no need for “Linux” references Running our business on LinuxCompletion of the grid Strategic partnerships with Red Hat and United Linux Industry-wide acceptance of standard distributions

Key Areas of Development  Management  Graceful degradation  CPU and memory scalability  Cluster management  Diagnostics and problem avoidance

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