BMC Software Expands Alliance with Oracle Announcing Its Support of Oracle9i for Space Management and Performance Management Solutions.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 2001 Participation in Joint Testing of Oracle9i Strengthens Scalability and Performance for BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Customers Expanding upon Noun 1. expanding upon - adding information or detail expansion step-up, increase - the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary" its recently announced alliance with Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), BMC Software Inc., (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. ), the leading provider of enterprise management, today took the next step in its relationship with Oracle by announcing support for Oracle9i Database in its SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. management, space management and performance management solutions. BMC Software also announced that it completed joint testing with Oracle, the largest provider of software for e-business, to validate compatibility with Oracle9i Database. Earlier this month BMC Software announced with Oracle that both companies are extending their relationship to leverage each other's technology to enable comprehensive, end-to-end systems management solutions to support e-business. BMC Software's work with Oracle further strengthens BMC Software's database management offerings and supports BMC Software's infrastructure management initiatives to assure business availability. BMC Software testing included participation in the Real Application Cluster (RAC See remote access concentrator. ) testing program for Oracle9i. Real Application Clusters, which debut in Oracle9i, give customers the ability to run the Oracle 9i Database across many separate machines that have been clustered together to provide a single view of the entire database. This ability, coupled with Oracle9i's support of extremely scalable hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. , makes Oracle9i one of the most scalable databases in the world. "BMC Software's participation in the Oracle9i Real Application Cluster testing exemplifies their commitment to developing reliable solutions for the database market," said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Global Partnerships for Oracle. "We are pleased to have BMC Software support a product that gives customers unlimited scalability, total availability and integrated systems management." BMC Software customers using Oracle's database technology can leverage BMC Software's performance management and space management solutions to manage the service level expectations of all the different components that make up the application. BMC Software's advanced database management technology retrieves application-specific metrics and advises the customer on utilization techniques to maximize their Oracle9i investment. The end result is higher availability of the application and a consistent process for managing service levels. "BMC Software is committed to supporting the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. of business-critical applications for customers running on Oracle(R) solutions, including Oracle9i," said Doug Pushard, general manager of the Distributed Data Management (protocol, database) Distributed Data Management - (DDM) An IBM data protocol architecture for data management services across distributed systems in an SNA environment. DDM provides a common data management language for data interchange among different IBM system platforms. business unit for BMC Software. "BMC Software and Oracle recognize that 24 X 365 availability and self-management capabilities are key areas of concern for our customers' business. These areas directly affect the availability of the business applications, which can be impacted by planned and unplanned maintenance or higher than expected transaction volumes." BMC Software's high-availability solutions include more than 30 distributed database A database physically stored in two or more computer systems. Although geographically dispersed, a distributed database system manages and controls the entire database as a single collection of data. products targeting the areas of: Performance Management, Administration, and Backup & Recovery. For more information on BMC Software's data management solutions, visit http://www.bmc.com/distdata?p061401r About BMC Software BMC Software Inc. (NYSE:BMC), is the leading provider of enterprise management solutions that assure business availability -- maintaining and optimizing business-critical systems with automated infrastructure management and unique service management capabilities. BMC Software is a member of the S&P 500, with fiscal year 2001 revenues exceeding $1.5 billion and offices worldwide. For more information, please visit BMC Software's Web site at www.bmc.com. BMC Software, BMC Software OnSite, the BMC Software logos and all other BMC Software product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle9i is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective companies. (c) 2001, BMC Software Inc. All rights reserved. |
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