1. 1 SuSE and Oracle SuSE Linux: Delivering the ultimate Flexibility and Accessbility Uwe Heine, Chief Alliance Officer SuSE Linux, Inc.

2. 1 Agenda SuSE – Who we are Why Linux matters to DBAs, developers and businesses The drivers toward a Universal OS The future vision for Oracle users Oracle and SuSE today SuSE enterprise product roadmap Why SuSE?

3. 1 About SuSE Founded in 1992 Headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany Subsidiaries in USA, UK, Italy, Czech Republic Delivers in more than 70 countries Largest Open Source Development Team Founding Member of United Linux 400+ employees worldwide (~150 developers) 40 Million Euro in Sales (2002)

4. 1 Technolgy Leadership 1993 First SuSE Linux distribution 1999Invented platform independent Linux technology: SuSE Linux AutoBuild TM 2000First Linux Enterprise Server First Linux on Mainframe: - IBM z- and p-Series - commercial distribution 2/2003First Linux 5 year maintenance offering 4/2003First Linux for AMD64 (developed since 2000) 5/2003First Carrier Grade Linux (std. Distribution) 6/2003First Linux Desktop for the enterprise (5 yr maint.) First EAL 2 Security Certification

5. 1 SuSE Productline X86 and compatibles Up to 60 days installation support SuSE Home User ProductSuSE Enterprise Platform X86 and compatibles S/390 mainframe 31bit AMD Opteron (64 bit) Itanium Processor Familiy (64 bit) z-Series mainframe 64bit Enterprise ready Maintenance, Support and Service Commitments

6. 1 Why Linux matters CIO strategy for Linux IT benefits for Linux The Universal OS dream come true Source: IDC 2002

7. 1 CIO strategy for Linux Reduce technologies used Consolidate IT skill sets Improve business agility Streamline operations

8. 1 The future vision for Oracle users One environment, many platforms Infinite interoperability Portability of skills Agility through standardization Source Code x86 z-Series p-Series i-Series 32-bit OpteronItanium 64-bit

9. 1 Where the rubber meets the road – Oracle and SuSE today HP and IBM benchmarks How we got there Where Oracle and SuSE will lead Oracle support of Enterprise Server

10. 1 Benchmarks New record-setting benchmarks from HP and IBM OASB benchmarks IBM scales up – one host HP scales out – cluster All on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 Source: Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark, http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark 28CPUs / host Average response time Number of users Model 1.19 sec0.49 sec 7,5045,656 Proliant DL580s using RAC eServer xSeries 440

11. 1 How SuSE and Oracle Team Oracle Extends Unbreakable Linux Initiative To Include UnitedLinux Work with SuSE and the community to drive features into Linux Development teams constantly collaborate Mutual work toward enhancing and hardening Linux Optimization and testing of products during development Ongoing scalability and performance testing Oracle tests are part of SuSE’s development process Oracle and SuSE development teams tightly coordinated All SuSE Linux Enterprise Server service packs are Oracle tested Every Oracle Product Runs on SLES8 Today

12. 1 Single source support from Oracle Direct support of SuSE Linux worldwide Single point of contact Single point of solution No additional Oracle support contract required Customers must have SuSE Maintenance Contract

13. 1 SuSE and Oracle will Lead Collaboration with key hardware vendors; three way partnership with SuSE, joint support agreements HP, IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens, SGI Easy and integrated installation process (YaST) Oracle Linux ISV Initiative Joint Oracle/ SuSE offerings to Linux ISVs Develop Market Sell

14. 1 15.09.2003 - SuSE Linux Standard Server 8 29.10.2003 - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 Servicepack 3 06/07.2004 - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 06/07.2004 - SuSE Linux Standard Server 9 11.2004 – SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 Servicepack 4 SuSE Linux Server Roadmap

15. 1 SuSE Linux Standard Server 8 Available 15.09.2003 Multifunctional Operatingsystem for SMB Ideally for small organisations and departments Ease of use administration frontends Internetprotocol IP Version 6 United Linux V1.0 included Out-of-the box Services

16. 1 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 Servicepack 3 Available 29.10.2003 Kernel 2.4.21 Samba 2.2.9 Java 1.4.1 Service Location Protocol Server Network traffic shaper Blade Server extensions Multiple driver diskettes during install USV packages

17. 1 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SuSE Linux Standard Server 9 Available 6/7.2004 Kernel 2.6 Glibc 2.3 NPTL Gcc 3.3 Ease of use configuration wizards Binary compatibility to SLES 8 Full LDAP enablement...

18. 1 Why SuSE? Key Facts! Maturity of a decade old technology company The stability of elegant engineering Our focused attention on making IT successful The backing of major HW and SW vendors like...

19. 1 Why SuSE ? Partnerships!

20. 1 Why SuSE? Customers! (I/II) Customer: Police-Force North Rhine-Westfalia High-Level Goals Implementation on lower-priced Intel-based hardware Reduction of maintenance overview Greater scalability to include 70 districts in their centralized system Corporate Profile Industry: Public Services Employees: around 45,000

21. 1 Why SuSE? Customers! (II/II) Hardware & Software 3 node cluster of Fujitsu Siemens computers Primergy N800 servers, each populated with 4 Intel Pentium III Xeon processors and using 10 GB RAM Oracle 9i Database Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters Key benefits High availability Reduced administrative personnel Good scalability

22. 1 Conclusions This is not the future... It is here and now SuSE & Oracle support your CIO’s agenda The SuSE/Oracle partnership is deep, broad, and growing SuSE & Oracle team with the top hardware vendors SuSE and Oracle will make you successful

23. 1 Questions?