Yoshihiro Daikoku Partner Business Senior Consultant Oracle Corporation

Yoshihiro Daikoku Partner Business Senior Consultant Oracle Corporation Japan

Customer Experiences in Japan

Agenda Ÿ Introduction of Oracle Japan Ÿ z. Series Oracle Business in Japan Ÿ Customer's Case Ÿ Oracle Database on S 390/Linux performance validation test. (Based on NS-Soltions' presentation)

Introduction of Oracle Japan. Ÿ No. of Employees: 1440 (5/31/2002) Ÿ HQ: Tokyo Ÿ Branches: – Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Sapporo, Kanazawa, Sendai, Naha.

Recent Topic of Oracle Japan…. Ÿ We have a “famous” employee. – – She appears many TV news / Magazines. Oracle Japan’s consumer awareness raised by her.

Recent Topic of Oracle Japan…(Cont’d) Ÿ Oracle 10 g 128 Nodes RAC real-demo at Oracle World Tokyo – 12/17/2003 -12/18/2003.

Oracle Japan Business Model Ÿ Mainly Partner Model (also we have Oracle Direct / Direct sales ) Ÿ Partner Sells Oracle Products to Customer – They run Oracle Software’s function validation, performance validation, etc. Ÿ Oracle Japan Supports Partners’ Business – By Technical, By reducing License cost etc. Customer Partner Oracle Japan

z Series Oracle Business in Japan Ÿ S 390 Oracle and z. OS Oracle was not available in Japan. – – Because it seems no business opportunity. Skillful engineer for mainframe is very low in Oracle Japan. Ÿ In Japan, business partner company NSSolutions Corp. ( Nippon Steel ) exclusively sells z/Linux Oracle. – They did S 390/Linux RAC performance validation test and got comfortable result.

How Oracle Japan work on Linux/390 and z/Linux Ÿ Oct/2002 – Oracle R 9. 2 for IBM Linux/390 basic function validation test (with NS-Solutions) Ÿ Feb/18/2003 – Oracle R 9. 2 for IBM Linux/390 on sale (Press Release with NS-Solutions) Ÿ Summer of 2003 – First Customer Cut Over Ÿ Feb/2004 – NS-Solutions did performance validation test on Linux/390 9 i. R 2 RAC Ÿ May? /2004 – Database 10 g for z/Linux on sale in Japan

S 390/Linux and z/Linux Oracle Ÿ Already working… – 1 Customer Ÿ Soon go live… – 2 Customers Ÿ Prospect – 4 Customers Ÿ Customer case – Ebara Corporation

Customer’s case before 9672 Unix Servers after

Customer’s Case…(Cont’d) System for HQ System for Business HQ System for HQ Project Procurement Management System Linux OS/390 Linux z/VM z 900

Why they choose…S 390/Linux? Ÿ Server Consolidation – Unix Server and 9672 Ÿ The application on Sun was written in EJB technology. Ÿ So easy to migrate to 390/Linux.

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