Independent Software Vendors Continue to Adopt Oracle(R) Real Application Clusters for Enhanced Availability and Scalability
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Independent Software Vendors Continue to Adopt Oracle(R) Real Application Clusters for Enhanced Availability and Scalability

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 600 Leading ISV Applications Are Certified on Oracle Real Application Clusters

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle OpenWorld --

News Facts

    --  More than 600 leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) worldwide,
        including ERDAS Inc., Intergraph Corporation, and RedPrairie, are now
        certified to run their business solutions on Oracle Real Application
        Clusters, Oracle announced today.
    --  ISVs across all industries run Oracle Real Application Clusters
        utilizing Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Oracle Clusterware,
        all components of Oracle Grid infrastructure software, to offer their
        customers highly available and reliable business applications.
    --  Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Automatic Storage Management
        and Oracle Clusterware deliver a fault-tolerant, high performance and
        scalable infrastructure that supports mission-critical business
        applications across a grid of low-cost, industry-standard hardware
        servers on Linux, Windows and UNIX platforms.
    --  Oracle's Product Technology Services (PTS) group provides partners with
        support for ports and migrations from legacy or non-Oracle technologies
        to Oracle.

ISVs Count on Oracle Real Application Clusters for Mission Critical Business Applications

    --  ERDAS Inc. creates Geospatial Business Systems that transform our
        earth's data into business information, enabling individuals, businesses
        and public agencies to quickly access, manage, process, and share that
        information from anywhere.  ERDAS works closely with Oracle to deliver
        unique and powerful spatial technology solutions, including such as
        enterprise applications that combine business information with
        geospatial content.  Certifying ERDAS ADE Enterprise on Oracle Real
        Application Clusters enables customers to achieve a high quality of
        service as well as adapt quickly to growing business demands.
    --  Intergraph Corporation fuses geospatial technology to security, helping
        some of the world's largest government, military, and industrial
        organizations in more than 60 countries better manage their operations
        and safeguard their infrastructure.  Using Intergraph's solutions, these
        organizations build and manage complex geospatial information systems
        and operations that make the world work - from oil and gas, utilities,
        communications, and transportation networks to public safety and
        national security systems.  Intergraph's geospatial and enterprise
        engineering software is certified on Oracle Real Application Clusters
        for customers seeking high availability and redundancy of their
        Intergraph systems.
    --  RedPrairie is a consumer-driven optimization company offering on-demand
        solutions to many of the world's largest companies.  Customers rely on
        RedPrairie's E2e(TM) Supply Chain Suite to pick, pack, ship, and receive
        products worldwide.  A foundation of Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Real
        Application Clusters, Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Oracle
        Clusterware supports RedPrairie's high volume of real-time transactions
        -- helping to meet customers' supply chain processing requirements in an
        efficient manner.

Supporting Quotes

"Our Geospatial Business Systems enable individuals, businesses and public agencies to author, manage, connect and deliver geospatial information from anywhere," said Mladen Stojic, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, ERDAS. "The certification of our products with Oracle Real Application offers our customers the capabilities they need to ensure business continuity and support growing numbers of users over time."

"As a leading provider of geospatially powered solutions to the Security, Government and Infrastructure markets, Intergraph is committed to partnering with Oracle to ensure our customers have access to the best relational database offerings available," said Mark Doherty, executive director of technology architecture at Intergraph Corporation. "We regard Oracle Database 11g as a tremendous asset to our customer base, with its high availability and reliability features such as enhanced partitioning, Real Application Testing, Active Data Guard, and Advanced Compression. It enhances their ability to maintain their operational systems and to manage and distribute their data holdings more efficiently."

"Each day our thousands of customers rely on our on-demand supply chain solutions to run their businesses efficiently," said Gary Morgan, Vice President of Technical Services, RedPrairie. "The nature of our solutions demand that it be available when our customers need it, and deliver a high quality of service which is why we chose Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters for our foundation."

"ISVs can provide their customers with the highest quality of service measured by performance, availability and scalability at the lowest cost with Oracle Real Application Clusters," said William Hardie, vice president of Database Product Marketing, Oracle. "Without changing their business applications, ISVs are able to deliver virtually continuous uptime, and the ability to easily expand their cluster to accommodate growing numbers of users and transactions."

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