HP and Oracle Increase Commitment to Advance Customer Adoption of HP Integrity Solutions

HP and Oracle Increase Commitment to Advance Customer Adoption of HP Integrity Solutions

As part of HP and Oracle’s alliance to help enterprises optimize business operations, the companies have increased their commitment to HP Integrity servers running Oracle® software. The companies will unveil the news in a live web event featuring chief executive officers Mark Hurd of HP, Paul Otellini of Intel and Larry Ellison of Oracle. The web event, which begins today at 11:30 a.m. ET / 8:30 a.m. PT, is available at http://www.hp.com/go/hplive.

Highlighting the news, Oracle today announced that Oracle’s 10g infrastructure software, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager, as well as the Oracle E-Business Suite, will run on HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i. Oracle is currently working to deliver the Oracle E-Business Suite, a fully integrated, comprehensive set of business applications for enterprises, worldwide for HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i.

In addition, HP-UX 11i running on Intel® Itanium® processors is a strategic platform for Oracle. As such, new releases and future updates are scheduled to be available at the same time as other strategic UNIX® platforms. Oracle, HP and Intel intend to continue to lead in total cost of ownership for their joint customers. Expanding on a recent announcement by Oracle, HP Integrity customers will receive advantageous pricing for their Oracle software.

“Today’s announcement reemphasizes HP and Oracle’s commitment to providing our existing 100,000 customers with a clear path to the future and it meets the strong customer demand for Oracle E-Business Suite on HP Integrity servers,” said Rich Marcello, senior vice president and general manager, Business Critical Servers, HP. “For more than 25 years, HP and Oracle have delivered unparalleled value through joint server and application tuning and optimization.”

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