REDWOOD SHORES, California, 14-AUG-2007 05:00 AM  Oracle today announced that Oracle(r) Database 11g, the latest release of the world's most popular database, is generally available on the Linux platform. Oracle Database 11g delivers the next-generation of enterprise information management, helping customers tackle the demands of rapid data growth, changing environments, and the need to deliver higher quality of services while reducing and controlling IT costs.

"Oracle Database 11g continues the focus on grid computing by enabling grids of low-cost servers and storage to deliver fast, scalable and reliable data processing, supporting the toughest data warehousing, transaction processing, and content management, environments," said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Oracle.

New Options Offer Customers Unique Data Management Capabilities

To provide customers with increased capabilities to help meet their broad range of data management needs, Oracle today also introduced four new options for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition:

• Oracle Real Application Testing;
• Oracle Advanced Compression;
• Oracle Total Recall; and,
• Oracle Active Data Guard.

Many organizations want to take advantage of database and operating system upgrades, and also make hardware and system changes to meet the needs of the business. Oracle Real Application Testing helps customers reduce the time, risk and cost of testing such changes in their IT environment, in a controlled, cost-effective manner.

New compression capabilities for all types of data mean that compression ratios of 2x to 3x or more can now be achieved with Oracle Advanced Compression. Coupled with new partitioning capabilities, Oracle Advanced Compression can be used to deploy Information Lifecycle Management strategies in the database without application changes, further reducing overall storage requirements.

Oracle Total Recall enables administrators to easily maintain historical archives of changed data for compliance and business intelligence. Oracle Total Recall provides a secure, efficient, easy-to-use and application-transparent solution for long-term access to changed data.

Oracle Active Data Guard can be used to enhance the performance of production databases by offloading resource intensive operations such as queries and backups to a single physical standby database. So the return on investment for a physical standby database is greatly increased as it can be used for both disaster protection and enhancing the overall quality of service of the production environment.

Beyond these new options, Oracle Database 11g also delivers a broad range of new features and enhancements to improve enterprise information management. Oracle Database 11g features improved file storage performance, increased security functionality, significant performance enhancements to Oracle XML DB, enhanced OLAP and data warehousing capabilities, and others.

Availability, Pricing and Packaging

Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition and Standard Edition One are generally available today on Linux x86. A free evaluation version of Oracle Database 11g on Linux x86 is available for download on Oracle Technology Network at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html . Terms, conditions, and restrictions apply.

Pricing for Oracle Database 11g editions and existing options remains unchanged. The following new Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition options are priced as follows:

• Oracle Real Application Testing -- $10,000 per processor or $200 per named user;
• Oracle Advanced Compression -- $10,000 per processor or $200 per named user;
• Oracle Total Recall -- $5,000 per processor or $100 per named user; and,
• Oracle Active Data Guard -- $5,000 per processor or $100 per named user.

Oracle's complete technology price list is available at:
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/pricelists.html .

About Oracle Database 11g
Oracle Database is the only database designed for grid computing. With more than 400 new features, 36,000 person-months of development, and 15 million test hours, Oracle Database 11g is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever; enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly. Oracle Database 11g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers.

About Oracle
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