IBM and ORACLE COLLABORATE to ADVANCE PROJECT MONTEREY Submitted By: Pleon Monday, 15 November 1999

IBM AND ORACLE COLLABORATE TO ADVANCE PROJECT MONTEREY Submitted by: Pleon Monday, 15 November 1999

-Oracle Plans to Deliver Key Technologies within AIX, Monterey/64- IBM and Oracle today announced a comprehensive initiative in support of AIX and Monterey/64*. As part of this initiative, IBM and Oracle will offer Oracle Internet Directory within AIX and Monterey/64 as a directory option to customers. Furthermore, Oracle expects to port its database and application suites, currently available on AIX, to Monterey/64. This collaboration significantly advances Project Monterey, which is expected to provide customers with a secure and reliable UNIX platform from which to deploy their critical e-business applications. "By offering Oracle technology and applications with AIX and Monterey/64, customers will have increased choice and flexibility to implement new e-business solutions quickly and easily," said Rajiv Samant, general manager, UNIX, IBM. "The agreement marks an expansion of the business and technology relationship between IBM and Oracle on AIX and Monterey/64. The expected addition of Oracle's database and application suites is a further milestone in making the Project Monterey product line the leading UNIX platform for customers and software providers." "The integration of Oracle technology into AIX and Monterey/64 moves us toward solving several key challenges our customers face in becoming effective e-businesses," said Michael Rocha, senior vice president of Platform Technologies, Oracle Corporation. "Together, Oracle and IBM are providing a scalable, reliable solution across a broad spectrum of computing architectures that creates lasting stability, quality and reliability for our customers. This agreement helps make AIX and Monterey/64 a preferred Oracle platform for its strategic enterprise UNIX on IBM's POWER and Intel's IA-64 architectures." "Oracle's support for Monterey/64 is a tremendous step forward in delivering the industry's leading enterprise UNIX platform for Itanium processor-based systems," said Doug Michels, SCO's CEO and president. "We are delighted to see

Page 1 Oracle expand its support to all Project Monterey UNIX systems as it enables ISVs to have direct access to the largest commercial UNIX systems marketplace for their applications." "Oracle's commitment further boosts Monterey's rapid progress towards becoming the de facto, multi-vendor UNIX for the IA-64 community," said Andrew Butler, research director, UNIX and Mid-range Server Strategies, Gartner Group Europe. These software offerings are expected to exploit the performance and scalability features of Monterey/64 and are expected to be available for Monterey/64 in the second half of 2000. The Oracle Internet Directory is expected to be available for AIX by the end of 1999. It is anticipated that IBM OEMs for AIX and/or Monterey/64, including Acer, Bull, CETIA, Compaq, IBM, ICL, Samsung and Unisys, will now have the capability to distribute Oracle software on their platforms. In addition, Oracle and IBM plan to work together to exploit the success of the Project Monterey product line through customer visits, ISV programmes and business shows. Joint Commitment to Industry Standards In addition to the collaboration on Project Monterey, both IBM and Oracle are demonstrating their commitment to industry standards for UNIX, including secure directory services through the Directory Interoperability Forum (DIF), founded in July by IBM, Oracle, Novell, Data Connection Limited, Lotus Development Corp. and ISOCOR. The DIF was created to speed development and deployment of directory-enabled applications that run across different computing environments. In addition, Oracle is working with IBM on the UNIX Developers Guide-Programming Interfaces (UDG-PI) guidelines for systems using the Intel IA-64 microprocessors. The UDG-PI guidelines will help system manufacturers and software developers reduce development, test and maintenance costs.

Page 2 Project Monterey Background Announced in October 1998, Project Monterey is a major UNIX operating system initiative led by IBM, along with SCO and Intel. The objective of the Project Monterey initiative is to establish a volume, enterprise-class UNIX product line that runs across Intel IA-32 and IA-64 processors and IBM's POWER processors in systems that range from departmental to large data centre servers. As part of this initiative, a volume UNIX operating system is being developed for Intel's IA-64 processors using technologies from IBM's AIX and NUMA-Q brands and SCO's UnixWare. Many leading hardware and software providers have announced support for the Project Monterey initiative. Ref: 99/399 Editors Notes IBM news releases and fact sheets are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ibm.com. Additional information on IBM and Project Monterey can be found at http://www.ibm.com/servers/monterey. For more information about Oracle, please call 001-650-506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is http://www.oracle.com. AIX is a trademark or registered trademark of IBM Corporation. Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle Internet Directory are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group. All others are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. * Monterey/64 is the code name used for the Project Monterey UNIX operating system for the Intel IA-64 platform. Media Contacts: Nick Davis

Page 3 Hardware Strategist 01256 344689 [email protected] Or Greg Mills/Emma Thompson (on behalf of IBM) Brodeur A Plus 01753 790700 gmills/[email protected]

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