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By John Geralds, VNU Net

Database giant Oracle has upped the ante in the Linux applications battle by unveiling its first enterprise-level application server for the open source software.

The company has also announced expanded marketing schemes with Linux distributors Caldera, SuSE and VA Linux which include joint advertising campaigns.

A Linux version of Oracle Internet Application Server is now available for download from its developer site, Oracle Technology Network. Although the product can be downloaded free, deployment will require a licence fee of $5 for each universal power unit (UPU) for the standard edition, and $30 per UPU for the enterprise version.

Oracle also began shipping the wireless edition of its Application Server for Linux at $150 per UPU and $95 per user. Application Server includes customer relationship management, order management, financials, human resources, manufacturing, procurement, projects and supply chain modules.

The Java-based Oracle Internet Application Server 8i is the last piece of the company's enterprise Linux strategy. It follows Oracle 8i Database Enterprise Edition, which was shipped last year, and the Oracle Ebusiness Suite 11i, launched earlier this summer.

Bob Shimp, Oracle's marketing director, said the company has already released the new version of the application server for the Unix operating system and is a few weeks away from shipping a version for Windows.

The announcement follows similar a campaign by IBM, which recently confirmed its commitment to support Linux across all four of its hardware platforms - RS/6000 Unix servers, AS/400 minicomputers, S/390 mainframes and NetFinity PC servers.

Big Blue is also expected to detail plans at next week's LinuxWorld trade show that it will pre-load versions of Linux from Caldera, Red Hat and TurboLinux on selected Net Vista and Aptiva desktop and Thinkpad laptop systems.

Meanwhile, Oracle announced that its database software for Linux is being downloaded from Oracle Technology Network at four times the rate of Oracle on Microsoft Windows 2000 and NT.

In the past year, requests for Oracle's database software for Linux have increased twelve-fold. During July 1999, when Oracle first announced Oracle8i for Linux, 20,000 copies were downloaded that month. During July 2000, 285,000 copies of the latest release of Oracle8i for Linux were downloaded.

Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   What is an UPU???? Most app server do their pricing based on the number of CPUs on the server. Is Oracle's UPU the same??? If it is, then $30 per CPU is BLOODY SCREAMING CHEAP!!!! Sybase charges $7,500 for EAServer and WebSphere costs something like $15,000 per CPU. So, what really is this UPU thing???    Jacek Aug 10, 2000, 14:35:39     Re: What is an UPU???? from http://www.progress.com/analyst/aberdeen_0600.htm">http://www.progress.com/analyst/aberdeen_0600.htm"> http://www.progress.com/analyst/aberdeen_0600.htm: In December 1999, Oracle announced a simplified e-Business pricing and licensing strategy for Oracle8i based on a Universal Power Unit (UPU). To calculate the UPU-based cost per customer, Oracle multiplies the total number of processors in a system on which Oracle8i runs by the MHz of each processor, then multiplies that figure by a hardware platform index: 1.0 for Intel/CISC (complex instruction set computer) or compatible architecture; 1.5 for RISC (reduced instruction set computer) or compatible architecture.    ac Aug 10, 2000, 14:46:00     Re: Re: What is an UPU???? And this is supposed to be the SIMPLIFIED pricing scheme? Give me a break... OK, so let's see: a 2 CPU server running at let's say 700 MHz: That would be 2 * 700 Mhz * 1 (for Intel) * $30 = $42,000 Am I wrong here? In that case, it is actually bloody expensive. I hope once Enhydra gets some real exposure and marketing it's $99 price tag will start eating into the app server market... Anyway, I would be very wary of using an app server from a DBMS vendor. I'm pretty sure it will work very well with Oracle and surprisingly poorly with other DBMSs. I think one vendor lock-in (M$)is enough in this industry..    Jacek Aug 10, 2000, 15:02:08     Re: Re: What is an UPU???? The whole UPU thing is really annoying (trust me, my company just finished some negotiations with oracle...) The real beauty of it is that it puts your licencing fee on the Moore's law slope. Am I the only one who sees that as a problem?    mikee Aug 10, 2000, 15:07:09     Re: Re: Re: What is an UPU???? " The real beauty of it is that it puts your licencing fee on the Moore's law slope. Am I the only one who sees that as a problem?" Either that or they get to claim that the price of their software is halving every eighteen months. It also gives them a nice incentive to make their software as demanding on the hardware as they can. :)    James Hollingshead Aug 10, 2000, 16:12:19     Sheesh Why not just tie it to BogoMIPS? It'd be nice for someone to make some use of that value.    Me Aug 10, 2000, 16:11:29     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!