Compaq and Oracle team to integrate Oracle InterOffice Suite on Compaq servers; Line-of-business solution for the distributed enterprise is result of strong alliance between industry leaders.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1995 -- Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) and Oracle Corporation today broadened the reach of their successful alliance for enabling easy and confident deployment of distributed enterprise solutions with Compaq support for Oracle's InterOffice in·ter·of·fice adj. Transmitted or taking place between offices, especially those of a single organization: an interoffice memo; interoffice conferences. Suite. This distributed enterprise solution supports line-of-business applications in branch or remote offices, stores and divisional locations. Compaq and Oracle announced that they will optimize Oracle's Enterprise InterOffice and Workgroup InterOffice software suites for Compaq platforms in the second half of 1996. Using Compaq's SmartStart technology, Compaq and Oracle will enable the installation, configuration and optimization of the Oracle InterOffice Suite on Compaq servers, the reference platform for the InterOffice Suite. (SmartStart is the Compaq integration tool for installing and integrating reliable servers). Customers can expect increased performance, ease of installation and a reliable server platform when they use SmartStart to install and configure Oracle's software on Compaq's platforms. Oracle's Enterprise InterOffice and Workgroup InterOffice products, announced today, are integrated turnkey solutions for networked computing environments. Speaking in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden today at Oracle's launch event for the Oracle InterOffice products, Eckhard Pfeiffer Eckhard Pfeiffer (born August 20, 1941 in Lauban, Germany—now Lubań, Poland) is a business executive of German ancestry, and a former CEO of Compaq from 1991-1998. He joined Compaq from Texas Instruments, and established operations from scratch in both Europe and Asia. , President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Compaq Computer Corporation, said, "A cornerstone of Compaq's systems business strategy is to develop strong relationships with industry market leaders to deliver integrated solutions for the distributed enterprise. Today's announcement with Oracle is a tangible example of this strategy." Pfeiffer continued, "Using Oracle's InterOffice Suite, we plan to team with Oracle to continue delivering jointly-tested, integrated and optimized networked systems. Compaq's tightly integrated solutions, based on industry-standard platforms with leading price/performance, will enable branch or remote offices to further automate and increase the sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of their computing operations. Combine our leadership systems technology and integration expertise with Oracle's InterOffice remote management capabilities and you have a formidable team delivering a powerful solution for the distributed enterprise." Oracle's InterOffice Suite addresses the demand for competitive point-of-sale and point-of-service applications across many geographically-distributed business locations. Providing integrated database, system, network, operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and application management, the Oracle InterOffice Suite consists of an Oracle7 database server, as well as facilities for installing and maintaining applications and data remotely; company-wide messaging; and World Wide Web access. The software suite enables organizations to manage databases running on industry-standard platforms in multiple office or store locations from one central point. "Oracle InterOffice, and our alliance with Compaq, will redefine Verb 1. redefine - give a new or different definition to; "She redefined his duties" define, delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify - determine the essential quality of 2. corporate computing," said Ray Lane, president of worldwide operations, Oracle Corporation. "Compaq delivers integrated, reliable solutions on high-volume, cost-effective, industry-standard servers. Together with Oracle InterOffice, we can offer customers powerful, affordable and scalable solutions to meet the line-of-business needs for distributed enterprises. Compaq's support of Oracle InterOffice will yield superior benefits for our mutual customers." Compaq/Oracle Alliance for the Distributed Enterprise For the past two years, Compaq has worked closely with Oracle to develop a relationship that delivers cost-effective, manageable and highly-available solutions for customers using the distributed enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. model. These solutions, including Oracle's InterOffice Suite, are designed to reduce the requirement for on-site technical support while handling line-of-business applications in branch/remote office, stores and divisional locations. The Compaq/Oracle alliance focuses on these key areas when developing products: reliability and availability, performance, scalability and reduced on-site technical support. In 1994, Compaq and Oracle formed the Compaq Products Division at Oracle, a dedicated business unit within the Oracle organization chartered to deliver proven and tested distributed enterprise solutions engineered and supported by both companies. The first tangible customer benefit produced by the Compaq/Oracle relationship was support for and integration of Oracle7 -- via SmartStart (the Compaq integration tool for installing and integrating reliable servers) -- on Compaq platforms. In the reliability/availability area, Compaq and Oracle integrated Oracle's Fail- Safe database management application with Compaq's cost-effective, high-availability product called Online Recovery Server. Through Compaq's hardware and software technology and Oracle's Fail-Safe management software, two ProLiant servers simultaneously on-line and active can provide back-up processing for each other in the event of an outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. on either system. In such an event, no administrator intervention is necessary. Under this scenario, if a ProLiant server running an Oracle database application fails, Oracle agents will automatically re-initiate and recover all database operations on the second server, allowing users to resume their work within a short period of time. In the performance arena, Oracle recently announced record-breaking price/performance value and the best-ever TPC- C benchmark on a Compaq platform. The benchmark configuration consisted of the UnixWare 2 operating system and Oracle7 database running on a four-processor Compaq ProLiant 4500 5/133. See December 13, 1995 announcement from Oracle for full benchmark details. In the area of scalability, Compaq and Oracle demonstrated the first parallel database server technology running on an industry-standard platform during Intel's enterprise-focused launch of the Pentium Pro The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. processor last month in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . This technology demonstration revealed the hardware scalability Compaq platforms offer and the database scalability for which Oracle is known. Finally, today's announcement addresses both company's desire to offer solutions which require minimal on-site technical support at branch/remote offices, stores and divisional locations. Compaq's support of Oracle's Enterprise and Workgroup InterOffice Suite means customers using the distributed enterprise computing model can reliably deploy line-of-business applications away from centralized computing The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. centers without risking significant downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. or operational difficulties. Company Backgrounds Oracle Corp., a $3 billion company, is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest software company. The company offers its database, tools and application products along with related consulting, education and support service, in more than 90 countries around the world. For more information about Oracle, please call (415) 506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is http://www.oracle.com Compaq Computer Corporation is the world's largest supplier of personal computers, offering desktop PCs, portable PCs, servers and options. Founded in 1982, the company reported 1994 worldwide sales of $10.9 billion. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries throughout the world. Compaq also sells directly to customers through Compaq Direct Plus at 1-800-888-5858. Compaq provides 24- hour customer support and can be reached through the Compaq forums on America Online See AOL. , CompuServe, Internet (http://www.compaq.com), and Prodigy An online information service that provides access to the Internet, e-mail and a variety of databases. Launched in 1988, Prodigy was the first consumer-oriented online service in the U.S. , or by calling 1-800-345-1518. -0- Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Pentium is a trademark of Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking . For further editorial information, see contacts below. 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