Dave DargoVice PresidentLinux Program OfficeOracle 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 NowMarch 2002 September 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 Apps Over 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 adoption Running our business on Linux

Opportunistic Strategic partnerships with Red Hat and UnitedLinux

World Record 4-way TPC-C

OracleMicrosoft

IBM

136,111

121,065

0

25,000

50,000

75,000

100,000

125,000

150,000

tpmC

Source: Transaction Processing Council, as of September 5, 2003: HP Integrity rx5670, 136,110.97 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

OracleMicrosoft

IBM

4,443

0

1,000

2,000

3,000

4,000

5,000

QphR@100GB

Source: www.tpc.org. 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

OracleBEA

IBM

1,165

1,037

0

200

400

600

800

1,000

1,200

TOPS

Source: SPEC, as of September 8, 2003: www.spec.org, all in MultiNode Category: Oracle Application Server 10g, 1,165.06 TOPS@MultipleNode, $150.67 US$/TOPS@MultipleNode. BEA WebLogic 8.1 SP1 on HP DL360, 1,037.02 TOPS@MultipleNode, $200.34 US$/TOPS@MultipleNode.

Oracle BEAT BEA on identical hardware both performance and price!

Oracle on HP Computers

World Record DualNode SjAS2002

OracleBEA

IBM

431408

0

100

200

300

400

500

TOPS

Source: SPEC, as of September 8, 2003: www.spec.org, all in MultipleNode Category: Oracle Application Sever 10g on HP ML370G3 cluster, 431.26 TOPS@MultipleNode, $160.62 $US/TOPS@MultipleNode. BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 on HP-UX using HP rx5670, 408.02 TOPS@MultipleNode, 1075.17 $US/TOPS@MultipleNode.

Oracle BEAT BEA on both performance and price with half the CPUs !

Oracle on HP Computers

Best Price on SjAS2002

OracleBEA

IBM

150.67 200.24

647.52

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

$/TOP

Source: SPEC, as of September 8, 2003: www.spec.org, best price-performance, MultipleNode category: Oracle Application Server 10g, 1,165.06 TOPS@ MultipleNode, $150.67US$/TOPS @ MultipleNode. BEA WebLogic 8.1 SP1 on HP DL360, 1,037.02 TOPS @ MultipleNode, $200.34 US$/TOPS @MultipleNode. WebSphere 5.0.1. Application Server on eServer xSeries 360 cluster, 448.12 TOPS @ MultipleNode, $647.52 US$/TOPS @ 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 SchadlerForrester 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 7.3.4

HP-UX

Oracle 8i

TRU-64

Oracle 9iOracle

Current Inventory

Solaris

Oracle 7.3.4

HP-UX

Oracle 8i

TRU-64

Oracle 9i

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 NowMarch 2002 September 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 Apps Over 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 adoption Running our business on Linux

Opportunistic Strategic partnerships with Red Hat and UnitedLinux

Now and NextSeptember 2003 Next 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/Linux Complete 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 Linux Completion 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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