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Archived Oracle Articles
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21 Jan 2004
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EPL, Inc. Moves to Sun and Oracle, Kisses Microsoft Goodbye [12077]
TCO, Productivity, Maintenance and Administration Improve with Shift
EPL Inc. provides software and services to run the
core business of credit unions. EPL used Microsoft Exchange
and a variety of third-party applications, all running on Wintel until
they determined that the solutions were too costly and problem prone.
Management shifted to Oracle Collaboration Suite running on the
SolarisTM Operating System (SPARCR Platform Edition).
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21 Jan 2004
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Nation's Largest Classified Advertising Firm Chooses Sun [12078]
Alliances, Reputation and Expertise Sway Corporation's Decision
A single Sun FireTM 6800 server running the SolarisTM 8 Operating
System along with a Sun StorEdgeTM 3910 system helped lower operating
costs for the nation's largest classified advertising firm. Trader
Publishing Company's portal, Traderonline.com, choose Sun to migrate
its Oracle 9i database from two Sun servers to one.
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21 Jan 2004
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Dynamically Resizing the SGA in Oracle 9i [12081]
How to Configure the SGA to Use DISM
The Sun BluePrintsTM OnLine article by Erik Vanden Meersch and
Kristien Hens of Global Sales Organization explains how Oracle 9i can
operate in combination with Sun's dynamic reconfiguration (DR). It
provides a brief overview of DR, intimate shared memory (ISM), dynamic
intimate shared memory (DISM) and dynamically resizable system global
area (SGA) and explains how these technologies fit together.
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29 Dec 2003
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Sun, EDS Ease Storage Crunch at Goodrich Sensor Systems [11908]
Manufacturer Implements SAN-based Sun StorEdge 9960 Array
The decision by Goodrich Sensor Systems to implement the Oracle
e-Business Suite 11i pushed an already strained storage system well
beyond its limits. Goodrich and its IT partner EDS evaluated the
offerings of Sun and another vendor of SAN technology, then chose Sun
as the source for its new storage system.
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29 Dec 2003
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Iron Mountain Inc. Morphs into Iron Mountain Digital Archives [11909]
Sun Services Implements Sun Java Web Services Solution
With the help of Sun Microsystems, Iron Mountain Inc., a records
management and data and document archiving provider founded in 1951,
transformed itself into the Iron Mountain Digital Archives. The firm's
more than 150,000 accounts now have online access for records management
that allows them to conduct search, storage management and retrieval
operations of electronic records, emails, images, statements and other
files.
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12 Nov 2003
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Oracle E-Business Suite on the Solaris Operating System [11544]
The Number 1 Deployment Platform for Oracle E-BS
The number one deployment platform for Oracle's E-Business Suite (E-BS)
(AKA Oracle Applications 11i) is the SolarisTM Operating System
(Solaris OS) (SPARCR Platform Edition). A version of E-BS that will
run on Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) is under development. This article lists resources to find out more about the benefits of the Oracle E-Business Suite on Sun.
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10 Nov 2003
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Save up to 50 Percent on Sun Cluster License and High Performance [11509]
Benefits of Sun Cluster 3.1 Software for Oracle9i RAC Customers
For customers running Oracle Real Application Clusters with SunTM
Cluster software (now rebranded as Sun JavaTM System Cluster), Sun is
offering a promotion with savings of up to 50 percent. The promotion
reduces the license fees for Sun Cluster 3 agent licenses and SCI cards
and switches. The promotion will run until April 28, 2004.
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10 Nov 2003
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World Record Benchmark: Oracle Application Server 10g on Sun Hardware [11510]
36 Percent Improvement in Price/Performance
Sun solutions have achieved a world record with Oracle Application
Server 10g running on a heterogeneous Sun configuration in the
SPECjAppServer 2002 benchmark. The multi-tier operating system and
processor architecture included a seven-node Sun FireTM V65x server
cluster, each equipped with two Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz processors running
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, and linked to the SPARCR processor-based Sun
FireTM 6800 database server running the SolarisTM Operating System
(Solaris OS) (SPARCR Platform Edition) and the Sun FireTM V65x
server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 with x86 chip technology.
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06 Oct 2003
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Switch from Microsoft Exchange to Oracle Collaboration Suite and Get Improved Security, Reduced Complexity [11216]
Oracle, Sun and Allstream Initiative
Oracle Corp. Canada will work with Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. and
communication solutions provider, Allstream (formerly AT&T Canada) to
help users improve security and reduce the cost and complexity
associated with managing collaborative communications environments by
switching from Microsoft Exchange to Oracle Collaboration Suite.
Allstream will provide an assessment and produce a report showing
actual costs and the potential savings from using Oracle Collaboration
Suite.
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06 Oct 2003
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The Genome Sequencing Center Runs Oracle9i RAC, VERITAS to Manage Data [11217]
Solutions Run on Sun Fire V880 Servers
The Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University Medical
School implemented Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Clusters) managed
with VERITAS Advanced Cluster, Database Edition heterogeneous file
system software for the medical school's burgeoning data proliferation
problem. The solutions provide a high availability environment that
simultaneously cuts costs, boosts performance and enables staff to
continue their research without concern for the security and size of
the data store, according to a report by Lisa Vaas for eweek.
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