HP Extends Adaptive Enterprise with Oracle 10g and Linux

HP and Oracle are working together to integrate Oracle 10g on HP platforms enabling customers to redefine their business processes, optimize resources and increase performance.

Oracle Database 10g, with advanced self-managing capabilities and simplified cluster and storage management, enables professionals to focus on solving business problems rather than time-consuming administrative work. Oracle has also announced the Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Enterprise Manager.

With the growing trend to simplify IT infrastructures, HP and Oracle are using industry-standard building blocks across multiple platforms to enable customers to quickly and cost-effectively adapt their IT infrastructures to change.

Together, HP and Oracle are working with leading consortia, including OASIS, W3C, Globus Labs and the Web Service-Interoperability Organization, to drive industry adoption of open standards for grid computing. HP also recently announced the submission of its Web Services Management Framework (WSMF) for industry review to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), with support from Oracle and other industry leaders.

'HP and Oracle are committed to delivering a standards-based framework for grid computing to help CIOs dynamically link business with IT,' said Ron Eller, vice president of enterprise solution alliances, HP Enterprise Systems Group. 'Unlike the monolithic infrastructures offered by other companies, the combination of HP's Adaptive Enterprise offerings with Oracle's 10g products will help businesses quickly meet changing needs and deliver high service quality at low cost'.

Oracle and HP have more than 80,000 joint customers who benefit from the companies' shared commitment to delivering flexible solutions that run in open environments and enable them to capitalize on the benefits of the adaptive enterprise.

'HP's Adaptive Enterprise strategy and its flagship Utility Data Center solution as well as extensive work with the grid makes the company a valuable ally as we move to enterprise grid computing,' said Robert Shimp, vice president of platform marketing, Oracle.

'Because of our joint development history spanning over 20 years, we are able to help customers link their business dynamics to IT - more quickly and with less risk than ever before.'