System News for Sun Users http://sun.systemnews.com Oracle http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/71/3/Oracle/12077 EPL, Inc. Moves to Sun and Oracle, Kisses Microsoft Goodbye 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). http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/71/3/Oracle/12078 Nation's Largest Classified Advertising Firm Chooses Sun 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/71/3/Oracle/12081 Dynamically Resizing the SGA in Oracle 9i 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/70/5/Oracle/11908 Sun, EDS Ease Storage Crunch at Goodrich Sensor Systems 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/70/5/Oracle/11909 Iron Mountain Inc. Morphs into Iron Mountain Digital Archives 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/69/2/Oracle/11544 Oracle E-Business Suite on the Solaris[TM] Operating System 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/69/2/Oracle/11509 Save up to 50 Percent on Sun[TM] Cluster License and High Performance 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/69/2/Oracle/11510 World Record Benchmark: Oracle Application Server 10g on Sun Hardware 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/68/2/Oracle/11216 Switch from Microsoft Exchange to Oracle Collaboration Suite and Get Improved Security, Reduced Complexity 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/68/2/Oracle/11217 The Genome Sequencing Center Runs Oracle9i RAC, VERITAS to Manage Data 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.