1SuSE and

Oracle

SuSE Linux: Delivering the ultimate Flexibility and

Accessbility

Uwe Heine, Chief Alliance Officer

SuSE Linux, Inc.

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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?

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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)

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Technolgy Leadership

1993 First SuSE Linux distribution

1999 Invented platform independent Linux technology:SuSE Linux AutoBuildTM

2000 First Linux Enterprise Server First Linux on Mainframe:- IBM z- and p-Series - commercial distribution

2/2003 First Linux 5 year maintenance offering

4/2003 First Linux for AMD64 (developed since 2000)

5/2003 First Carrier Grade Linux (std. Distribution)

6/2003 First Linux Desktop for the enterprise (5 yr maint.)

First EAL 2 Security Certification

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SuSE Productline

X86 and compatiblesUp to 60 days installation support

SuSE Home User Product SuSE 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

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Why Linux matters

CIO strategy for Linux

IT benefits for Linux

The Universal OS dream come true

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CIO strategy for Linux

Reduce technologies used

Consolidate IT skill sets

Improve business agility

Streamline operations

1The future vision for Oracle users

One environment, many platforms

Infinite interoperability

Portability of skills

Agility through standardizationSourceCode

x86

z-Series

p-Series

i-Series

32-bit

OpteronItanium

64-bit

1Where 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

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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

1How SuSE and Oracle Team

Oracle Extends Unbreakable Linux Initiative To Include UnitedLinuxWork with SuSE and the community to drive features into LinuxDevelopment teams constantly collaborateMutual work toward enhancing and hardening LinuxOptimization and testing of products during developmentOngoing scalability and performance testingOracle tests are part of SuSE’s development processOracle and SuSE development teams tightly coordinatedAll SuSE Linux Enterprise Server service packs are Oracle tested

Every Oracle Product Runs on SLES8 Today

1Single source support from Oracle

Direct support of SuSE Linux worldwideSingle point of contact

Single point of solution

No additional Oracle support contract required

Customers must have SuSE Maintenance Contract

1SuSE 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

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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

1SuSE 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

1SuSE 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

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SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SuSE Linux Standard Server 9Available 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

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Why SuSE? Key Facts!

Maturity of a decade old technology companyThe stability of elegant engineeringOur focused attention on making IT successfulThe backing of major HW and SW vendors like...

1Why SuSE ? Partnerships!

1Why SuSE? Customers! (I/II)

Customer: Police-Force North Rhine-WestfaliaHigh-Level Goals

Implementation on lower-priced Intel-based hardwareReduction of maintenance overviewGreater scalability to include 70 districts in their

centralized systemCorporate Profile

Industry: Public ServicesEmployees: around 45,000

1Why SuSE? Customers! (II/II)

Hardware & Software3 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 DatabaseOracle 9i Real Application Clusters

Key benefits

High availabilityReduced administrative personnelGood scalability

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Conclusions

This is not the future . . . It is here and nowSuSE & Oracle support your CIO’s agendaThe SuSE/Oracle partnership is deep, broad, and growingSuSE & Oracle team with the top hardware vendorsSuSE and Oracle will make you successful

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Questions?