Oracle and Red Hat collaborate to drive advancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for Oracle customers in the Middle East

Red Hat and Oracle worked together to define features and enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 that would enable higher scalability, better performance, and ease of management for Oracle customers.

"The alliance of Oracle and Red Hat has brought huge benefits to customers like Al Ghurair Group. We have seen enhancements in performance, reliability, scalability and manageability making Linux an enterprise class and truly unbreakable platform. Another great benefit of this alliance is the single point of support for the entire software stack including the operating system, information management and business applications. By expanding its support scope, Oracle is now offering support for Red Hat Linux thrugh its global support infrastructure; Metalink" Said Hatem Al-Sibai, Chief Information Office at Al Ghurair Group.

"At Al Ghurair Group, running Oracle on Linux has delivered solid gains beyond our expectations, we are now reaping the benefits of increased reliability and scalability, these gains came with lower cost of ownership and imporved return on the investment. Our future plans will bring further platform consolidation by migrating print, file and other services to the Linux platform." Added Al-Sibai

"Oracle has displayed a deep commitment to Linux by establishing a strategic partnership with Red Hat to collaborate in the definition of features to enhance Oracle deployments," said Brian Stevens, vice president, Operating System Development at Red Hat. "Customers running Oracle solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will experience faster performance and better reliability and scalability, at a value unachievable with proprietary Unix."

"Over the last few years, Oracle and Red Hat have collaborated to ensure that numerous technology enhancements would be included, and have published several leading performance benchmarks to bring Linux to the next level," said Ayman Abouseif, senior director, marketing, Oracle Middle East and Africa. "Oracle provides an unmatched breadth of enterprise-class offerings on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, including infrastructure and enterprise applications software, seamless technical support and consulting services. We anticipate Linux adoption will continue to grow in the Middle East, and Oracle and Red Hat will continue to lead in meeting customer demand for lower cost computing."



Enhancements for Oracle environments
A number of functional enhancements provide direct benefits to Oracle customers. The new release will provide enhanced multi-threading, enhanced virtual memory management and numerous I/O improvements, such as increased address space of the kernel from 1GB to nearly 4GB, which will have a significant impact on the number of users that large Oracle deployments can sustain. Overall, with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Oracle customers will see better scalability and support for systems with up to 64GB of memory.

Performance leadership
Enterprise customers are moving to Linux-based systems to build mission-critical systems at the lowest cost. Using Oracle's next-generation flagship database technology, Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g on Linux, customers today will have a choice to deploy enterprise class solutions on the lowest cost hardware and operating system infrastructure without compromising the availability, reliability, and security that businesses demand from real-world applications. Oracle and Red Hat continue to deliver the best performing enterprise applications, and continues to have the top benchmark results:

•The World's fastest TPC-C result on Linux, 136,110.98 tpmC with a price performance ratio of $3.94/tpmC on an industry-standard HP Integrity rx5670 64-bit server with four Intel® Itanium® 2 processors at 1.5 GHz running Oracle Database 10g with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 31

•SpecJAppServer 2002 MultipleNode Category - Best Performance on Linux and Best Price/Performance: 1,165.06 TOPS@MultipleNode (Total Operations Per Second) with a price-to-performance ratio of $150.68 US$/TOPS@MultipleNode on a three-node HP ProLiant ML370G3 server cluster running with Oracle Application Server 10g and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3.2

•SpecJAppServer2002 Dual Node Category - Best Performance and Best Price/Performance: 431.26 TOPS@DualNode (Total Operations Per Second) with a price-to-performance ratio of 160.62$US/TOPS@DualNode on single node HP ProLiant ML370G3 server with Oracle Application Server 10g and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.3

•The World's first TPC-R benchmark.. This world record TPC-R 100 gigabyte result of 4,442.50 QphR@100GB with a price performance ratio of $35.00/QphR@100GB was achieved on a Dell PowerEdge 6600 running Oracle Database with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 / 4

•The World's first TPC-C cluster benchmark on Linux. The system benchmarked was an HP proLiant DL580 server cluster running Oracle Database and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. 5