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Dave Dargo Vice President Linux Program Office Oracle 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
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Dave Dargo Vice President Linux Program Office Oracle Corporation
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
World Record 4-way TPC-C Oracle on Linux beats SQL Server on Windows on both performance and price! Oracle on HP Computers 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.
World Record 4-way TPC-R World Record on 4-way Linux systems Oracle on Dell Computers 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 Linux SjAS2002 Oracle BEAT BEA on identical hardware both performance and price! Oracle on HP Computers 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.
World Record DualNode SjAS2002 Oracle BEAT BEA on both performance and price with half the CPUs ! Oracle on HP Computers 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.
Best Price on SjAS2002 Oracle on HP Computers 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.
Common Question When will Linux be ready for the enterprise?
“Linux has hit a tippingpoint where it is good enough for most workloads on commodity hardware.” Ted Schadler Forrester Research, May 2003
Common Question It’s enterprise capable, but what’s next?
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Key Areas of Development • Management • Graceful degradation • CPU and memory scalability • Cluster management • Diagnostics and problem avoidance
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