The Hindu : Business : Oracle's e-business suite touts Linux, low-cost edge

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Wednesday, Nov 03, 2004

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Oracle's e-business suite touts Linux, low-cost edge

By Anand Parthasarathy

MUMBAI, NOV. 2. The word `open' in Oracle's `OpenWorld' forum which opened here today, provided an unintended if sublimal message to the nearly 2000 participating Indian software engineers: Executives unveiling the latest version of its e-business application suite — version 11i.10 — due to be globally released this month, stressed its `revolutionary' features, marrying transaction processing muscle with business intelligence features. But delegates were also shown a low cost `special edition' realisation, which coupled with the free-'n-open computing environment of Linux, would make for a compelling business proposition for medium-sized Indian corporates.

By `pre-implementing' some of the solutions and providing a hardware-software-implementation combo, the Special Edition of the Oracle e-Business Suite would become affordable to a whole new slab of industry customers.

The fact that over 90 per cent of the product's development — a major contribution coming from the Hyderabad and Bangalore development centres of Oracle — was done on Linux platforms, would obviously weigh with new users who were deciding on their own computing environment.

"Linux is being increasingly selected by customers, not just for cost, but for performance and ease of use,'' Oracle's Executive Vice President for Application Development, Ronald Wohl, said in the course of a special briefing for The Hindu.

HP India's Managing Director, Balu Doraisamy, said many of the new applications flowed from the e-Governance Centre of Excellence, jointly created by the company with Oracle at Gurgaon near Delhi. Oracle OpenWorld concludes here on Wednesday before moving to San Francisco in December.

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