Bolstering their positions as Internet leaders, Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced an agreement to allow both companies to enhance their product offerings by exchanging key technologies. The agreement permits Sun to combine components of the Oracle8i Internet database into the Sun Solaris operating environment to support Sun middleware applications running high volume Internet business applications. Oracle will use the core of the Sun Solaris Operating environment to deliver the industry's first database server appliances.

Specifically, the agreement allows both companies to distribute and support combined offerings of the Oracle8i database and the Sun Solaris operating environment. The non-exclusive agreement will allow Sun to provide its customers with highly scalable capabilities for Internet and e-commerce applications by leveraging combined Oracle database technology. As a result, the Sun Solaris environment will feature enhanced file storage, email, calendaring, directory, session information and system management by taking advantage of database technology.

Oracle will use the Sun Solaris core with the Oracle8i Internet database for its upcoming database server appliance, code named Raw Iron. Sneak previewed by Larry Ellison just over three weeks ago, Raw Iron is a low-cost, pre-configured database appliance. By tightly integrating the operating environment core and the database, Raw Iron will hide complexity and provide scalable, database servers with low operational costs. [...read more...]

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