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® ™ IBM ~ xSeries • Application Flexibility providing the choice of Americas: building and deploying applications from a foundation of legacy and open standards with a ® based platforms for strong commitment to Open Source . Americas Techline (Q&A) techline@us..com • Innovative Technology for extreme Oracle and performance, outstanding scalability, reliability Americas TechLine/Solution Sizing Center and security. [email protected] applications • Risk Mitigation by leveraging all IBM servers, storage, finance, , etc. and the ISV Europe Middle-East Africa (EMEA): relationships. QUICK REFERENCE • Infrastructure Efficiency with self-managing systems and distributed computing over a EMEA IBM/Oracle Joint Solution Center (Q&A, and CARD network. E-business Sizing) [email protected] • TCO Reduction via a vast portfolio of mainframe, , Intel-based and integrated Asia Pacific (AP): servers and disk, tape or NAS storage

IBM AP/Oracle Competency Center (Q&A, and E- zSeries mainframe servers business Sizing) [email protected] Maximum performance, security and reliability for transaction processing Associations of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) and workload consolidation, (Q&A and E-business sizing Techline) supporting z/OS and zLinux. [email protected] pSeries UNIX-based servers Powerful, scalable, and reliable UNIX

World Wide servers, leveraging IBM’s POWER technology running AIX and Linux. IBM/Oracle International Competency Center August 2003 [email protected] xSeries Intel -based servers Affordable, expandable and scalable Internal Web site for more information systems running Windows 2000/NT, http://w3.developer.ibm.com/isvsolutionlink/oracle Linux, and other operating IBM / Oracle International systems IBM Contact Information: Competency Center http://www.ibm.com/contact/us [email protected] Enterprise Storage 2929 Campus Drive Intelligent storage servers, designed Additional Contacts: Suite 275 to be the most versatile and cost- San Mateo, California 94403 efficient storage server in its class. IBM xSeries Oracle9i RAC Website: USA http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/eserver/xseries/clusteri FAStT Storage Servers For data protection with dual ng/parallel_server.html Oracle products are licensed solely under Oracle redundant components, multiple terms and conditions. Neither IBM nor Oracle makes RAID levels, LUN masking and Oracle IBM Partner Site: any warranties, express or implied, concerning the enhanced management options http://www.oracle.com/ibm/ others’ products.

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Include the 3494 Enterprise Tape Library, the enterprise Virtual Tape

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Leading Benchmark Results Oracle Certifications on xSeries: Why IBM Servers for Oracle?

Oracle has identified the operating systems below as “The Standard Benchmark, • IBM’s strong technology relationship with Oracle. strategic components of its overall platform strategy (OASB), is a comparable standard workload which See: http://oracle.com/collateral/letter.rtf for Intel based servers. Oracle now certifies their demonstrates the performance and scalability of code to the operating systems (OS) listed in the table Oracle Applications and provides metrics for the • below. Any server that the vendor IBM’s strong commitment to enable Oracle comparison of Oracle Applications performance on lists as certified on the OS vendor’s website, Oracle products on IBM servers -> onsite engineering different system configurations.” Current results are will in turn regard as certified to run Oracle9i. and hardware resources at Oracle Corporation posted at:

• Oracle Certification Guidelines¹: IBM ~ strong performance -> IBM xSeries leads http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/index.ht http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/certify/certify.istore_ the Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark ml?results.html welcome (OASB) 11.5.3 and 11.5.6 results as of June 2, 2003

As of August 2003, the IBM xSeries model 440 • IBM xSeries provides an extremely wide array of leveraging its Enterprise x-Architecture™ blueprint scalable hardware solutions in single and multi- maintains the highest concurrent user count for any node configurations Intel® based server running Linux on the OASB version 11.5.3. IBM • IBM’s robust clustering solutions contribute to Server* Server* Server 8

2000 Adv. Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise Windows® Windows® Oracle’s “unbreakable” Real Application Cluster SuSE Linux Linux AS 2.1 AS 2.1 Linux

IBM xSeries 440, 5-way (1.6GHz) Windows 2003 System: (RAC) environment - proven cluster 32GB and Oracle’s 9i/RAC deliver scalable and reliable IBM solutions BladeCenter User Count: 3,472 (OASB 11.5.3) 2-way Blade In Plan √ √ √ • IBM’s industry leading systems management Average HS20 capabilities which provide for uninterrupted Response 1.17 seconds X445 4/8- √ operation and lower Total Cost of Ownership Time: √ √ √ way Database: Oracle 9i R2 Enterprise Edition X440 4/8- √ • IBM’s worldwide, world-class sales, support and way √ √ √ service – proven commitment to customer Operating satisfaction. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 System: X360 4-way In Plan √ √ √ • Oracle and Linux Competency & Solution Date June 14, 2002 Centers provide technical expertise, Submitted: X345 2-way In Plan √ √ √ benchmarking, sizing, customer briefings

Oracle has released an updated version of the OASB X335 2-way n Plan √ √ √ workload (11.5.6), and the x440 just posted the top • IBM xSeries Oracle Sizing Lab – located in San performance result as of June 2, 2003. Mateo, California to validate Oracle sizing X330 2-way √ In Plan √ In Plan assumptions – located within minutes of Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA IBM xSeries 440, 8-way (2.0GHz) System: X255 4-way In Plan 32GB In Plan √ √ • IBM Linux Technology Center – Headquartered

in Beaverton, Oregon ams to provide datacenter User Count: 5,656 (OASB 11.5.6) X235 2-way In Plan √ √ √ harden features (scalability, high availability, Average * No support for Network Attached Storage. etc.) to enhance Linux Response 0.474 seconds ** x450 4-way 64-bit certified for Redhat Time: Enterprise Linux AS 2.1for the IBM, the IBM logo, xSeries, pSeries, zSeries, AIX, and HACMP are trademarks or registered trademarks Database: Oracle 9i R2 Enterprise Edition Processor Family. of IBM corporation, in the United States, other countries or both. Windows 2000 is a registered Operating Oracle Product Purchase Information: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 trademark of Corporation. UNIX is a System: http://oraclestore.oracle.com registered trademark of The Open Group in the Date United States and other countries. All other June 2, 2003 Oracle Product Information: http://www.oracle.com/ Submitted: ¹Requires Metalink user id trademarks belong to their respective companies.