© 2004 Oracle Corporation Laurent Sandrolini Vice President Systems Platform Division Oracle Corporation

© 2004 Oracle Corporation

Laurent SandroliniVice President Systems Platform DivisionOracle Corporation


UNIX/RISC Adoption Rates

1990 1992 1995 1997 1999

High-touchPioneering implementationHard to find skill setDetailed reference

Medium-touchExperienced implementersBroader skill setEasier reference

Mass-market enterpriseBroadly available skill setNo references required


Skill Set Dispossession

Required skill set transfer, from mainframe skill sets Very expensive process Took a decade to complete

Early 1990’s

MVS, VM, VSE,VAX/VMS

Unix/RISC


Proposed Dispossession

Compelling low-cost x86 architecture Move to a Windows Server platform Repeat of expensive skill set transformation

Late 1990’s

Unix/RISC Windows Server


Proposed Retention

Take advantage of low-cost x86 platform Retain skill set investment Leverage existing skill-set to lower cost deployment

Early 2000’s

Unix/RISC Linux/x86


Linux Adoption Rates

2000 2002 2005

High-touchPioneering implementationHard to find skill setDetailed reference

Medium-touchExperienced implementersBroader skill setEasier reference

Mass-market enterpriseBroadly available skill setNo references required


Rapid Rate Catalysts

True enterprise-class support No skill set dispossession Deployment on low-cost commodity infrastructure Higher consolidation vs. Unix/RISC fragmentation True choice in supplier of the O/S and hardware A complete ecosystem around Linux


Linux at Oracle

Global IT2/3 of systems

migrated to Linux

Oracle R&DApplications

+ 10g=1,000’s engineers

Dedicated Linux Kernel Development

Dedicated Linux Program

Office

Oracle On Demand 600+ Linux systems

Deployed

Hardened Linux

Solutions


Evolution of IT

Mainframe

Client-Server

InternetComputing

DepartmentalServers


“Today’s IT shops are criminally inefficient, running assets at a small fraction of their capacity.”

Frank E. GillettForrester Research, October 2002


The Experts on IT Today…

“CIO’s report that server utilization is only 60%”

- Forrester Research

“75% of costs come from staffing & maintenance.”

- Business Week

“IT infrastructure is massively underutilized”

- IDC

“Companies can save 20% or more through consolidation”

- Giga Research


Traditional Deployments

New applicationidentified

New systemuniquely sizedand configured

+ =

Unique System 1 Unique System 2 Unique System 3 Unique System 4


Traditional Deployments

New applicationidentified

New systemuniquely sizedand configured

+ =

Unique System 1 Unique System 2 Unique System 3 Unique System 4


Problems with IT

Islands of computation– Configured for peak loads– Limited scalability– Availability < 99.x% – Fragmented security

Escalating costs Affects all businesses Decentralized management


GRID

The True Linux Opportunity


New Opportunity:Standard Building Blocks

Old Question: What size server does this new application need and what is the best server and O/S combination?

New Question: How many standard building blocks does this new application need?

2 Processor 4 Processor 4 Node Cluster


The True Linux Opportunity

Change the entire deployment model Identification of standards consolidation as a

true cost inhibitor Driving the commoditization of the hardware

platform Delivering a lower operational cost to our

customers


Unique Convergence

Low-cost, high performing processors from Intel and AMD

Maturing and development investment in Linux

Clustering product offerings from Oracle Global, enterprise-class support from Oracle New deployment model with opportunity to

provide leadership


Oracle’s Leadership

Oracle Real Application Clusters– Unique clustering technology allowing any

application to scale across a clustered architecture

Linux development and support model– Unique code-level support across the entire

software stack – apps, database and O/S 10g and enterprise grid with grid control

– Automatic provisioning and deployment of compute resources to a specific task


Foundation for the Grid isOracle on

Linux

Documents

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