As part of HP and Oracle’s alliance to help enterprises optimize business operations, the companies have increased their commitment to HP Integrity servers running Oracle® software.
The companies unveiled the news in a live web event featuring chief executive officers Mark Hurd of HP, Paul Otellini of Intel and Larry Ellison of Oracle. Highlighting the news, Oracle announced that Oracle’s 10g infrastructure software, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager, as well as the Oracle E-Business Suite, will run on HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i. Oracle is currently working to deliver the Oracle E-Business Suite, a fully integrated, comprehensive set of business applications for enterprises, worldwide for HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i.
In addition, HP-UX 11i running on Intel® Itanium® processors is a strategic platform for Oracle. As such, new releases and future updates are scheduled be available at the same time as other strategic UNIX® platforms.
Oracle, HP and Intel intend to continue to lead in total cost of ownership for their joint customers. Expanding on a recent announcement by Oracle, HP Integrity customers will receive advantageous pricing for their Oracle software.
“The announcement reemphasizes HP and Oracle’s commitment to providing our existing customers in the Middle East with a clear path to the future and it meets the strong customer demand for Oracle E-Business Suite on HP Integrity servers,” said Samer Karawi, Marketing Manager, Enterprise and Corporate Communication HP Middle East. “For more than 25 years, HP and Oracle have delivered unparalleled value through joint server and application tuning and optimization.”
Oracle is also extending its licensing support for the partitioning technologies of the HP Virtual Server Environment, which is an essential element of the HP Integrity server virtualization offering. HP products coupled with Oracle’s technology licensing models help customers realize a lower total cost of ownership. Customers can take advantage of HP’s partitioning continuum, which includes HP Integrity Virtual Machines and Secure Resource Partitions, where only the total number of capped processors within the server is required to be licensed.
“HP’s technology and server products have long been a strategic foundation for Oracle Applications and infrastructure software,” said Ayman Abouseif, Managing Director, Oracle Gulf States. “This announcement demonstrates Oracle’s increasing and ongoing commitment to the HP Integrity family of servers as a truly optimal platform for an enterprise’s most demanding workload. We look forward to the ongoing success of Integrity in the Middle East, alongside our database and application products.”
Additionally, HP is extending Oracle Fusion Middleware into its worldwide competency centers to assist customers in planning, designing, implementing and managing service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Offering customers access to architecture and consulting skills, software and hardware demonstrations, seminars and hands-on workshops, the SOA competency centers are located in Cupertino, Calif.; Bangalore, India; Sophia Antipolis, France; and Tokyo.
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About Oracle
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company. More information about Oracle can be found on the web at www.oracle.com.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended Jan. 31, 2006, HP revenue totaled $87.9 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 670 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah, Khobar, Cairo and Ramallah servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968 and opened its first regional office in 1994. HP Middle East is the market leader for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer technology products and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains.
More information about HP in the Middle East is available at www.hp.com/me.
