Sun Microsystems Servers and Storage Power First Combined Oracle Release 10.7 NCA Installation; Customer Chose Sun for Scalability.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1998--Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced today that Sun(TM) Enterprise(TM) servers and Sun(TM) StorEdge(TM) Arrays were chosen as the platform for the first combined production installation of Oracle Applications Release 10.7 NCA (Network Computing Architecture) An architecture from Oracle for developing applications within a networked computing environment. It provides a three-tier distributed environment based on CORBA that uses program components known as "cartridges. at Leeson Electric Corporation. Leeson, headquartered in Milwaukee, is using Sun Enterprise 6000 and 3000 servers and Sun StorEdge Arrays to run all of its Oracle applications, including database, finance, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , sales, marketing and manufacturing. Sun(TM) servers and storage will allow Leeson to deploy its Oracle business application solution as a single implementation, providing one database for the entire company while delivering a high degree of scalability, reliability, performance and ease of administration as their information technology needs grow. With the implementation of Release 10.7 NCA, Leeson is moving to three-tier client/server A three-way interaction in a client/server environment, in which the user interface is stored in the client, the bulk of the business application logic is stored in one or more servers, and the data are stored in a database server. See client/server. architecture based on an open Internet-computing model using Sun hardware and running on the Solaris(TM) operating environment. "We chose Sun over Hewlett Packard for our production server because of the excellent service and support their sales and service team have given us," said Mary Fonder, vice president of information technology and CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. at Leeson. "Sun also offers us the best price/performance. For our applications servers we considered NT, but we stayed with Sun because the Solaris operating environment is much more scalable." The Oracle Applications Release 10.7 NCA suite is a Java(TM) technology-based version of Oracle's complete enterprise suite of Financials, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Sales Force Automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. software, comprising in total more than 35 different applications. Today, many of the world's largest Oracle customers run on Sun. Sun enterprise solutions feature servers and storage systems that span the workgroup to the data center so Sun customers can easily grow or reconfigure their Sun solution with Oracle Applications to accommodate changing business conditions. Leeson manufactures and markets electric motors, gear motors and drives for industrial use. Leeson specializes in delivering customized products for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and (Original Equipment Manufacturer) customers as well as a wide array of stock products for distribution customers served by Leeson's 33 field warehouses. When the Oracle project is complete, Sun servers and storage will support approximately 300 concurrent users at four manufacturing plants and 31 warehouses throughout North America. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape Navigator or Sun's HotJava. Type http://www.sun.com at the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. prompt. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Teresa Camera 650/786-8832 teresa.camera@sun.com or For Sun Microsystems, Inc. Leiann Bonnet 208/363-0133 lbonnet@mail.earthlink.net |
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