TurboLinux and Oracle Expand Strategic Relationship; Oracle Takes Equity Position In TurboLinux; TurboLinux To Offer Operating System Optimized for Oracle8i - Company Business and Marketing

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, April 24, 2000

TurboLinux Inc., the high performance Linux company Monday announced a wide-ranging strategic relationship in which Oracle is taking an equity position in TurboLinux and TurboLinux will make available its operating system optimized for Oracle8i.

The commitment to certify and optimize the TurboLinux Server operating system for Oracle8i is the latest step in TurboLinux's commitment to providing Linux solutions to support high volume e-business and enterprise applications. To meet the growing demand in Asia for Linux-based enterprise solutions, Oracle, TurboLinux and Huadi, China's largest system integrator, plan to work together to sell to government and corporate customers.

"TurboLinux was the first distribution to port to Intel's new IA64 processor and we are the leader in Linux clustering," said Cliff Miller, CEO of TurboLinux. "By partnering with Oracle, we are better able to deliver on our promise to provide our enterprise customers with high performance, scalable, reliable and highly available Linux solutions."

"This partnership means that our enterprise customers will be able to build their solutions based on TurboLinux Server optimized for Oracle8i," said Michael Rocha, senior vice president, Platform Technologies Division, Oracle. "Additionally, working together will help solve the immediate needs of our Linux customers in Asia who are looking for a reliable platform upon which to build e-business solutions."

"Our customers are looking for true enterprise solutions and we believe the offering from TurboLinux and Oracle offers unmatched performance value for enterprise applications," said Zhang Chang Jiang, president of Huadi, China's largest systems integrator.

"Linux is often used as the foundation for Web-based or distributed applications." said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of system software research for International Data Corp. "Distributed database support is crucial for this type of workload. Oracle brings the expertise and the software for distributed database applications. TurboLinux brings the Linux expertise and software. This partnership is likely to help bring Linux into organizations that may not have considered it in the past."

TurboLinux Server for Oracle will make it easier to install and administer Oracle8i and offer performance improvements for enterprise-class database operations, including Large Memory support of up to 4GB of RAM for Intel IA32 systems, Raw I/O for faster disk access, Motif 2.1, and an integrated Java Run-time Environment.

Founded in 1992, TurboLinux is the world's fastest-growing Linux company with investment backing from more than 20 global computer companies, including BEA, Compaq, Dell, Intel, Fujitsu Support and Services, Legend, NEC, Novell, NTT, Oracle, Pacific Century CyberWorks, SCO and Toshiba. A market leader in Linux software clustering solutions and Linux internationalization, the company's high-performance consumer and business Linux products run on Intel, Alpha and PowerPC workstation and server platforms and are supported globally by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and SCO. Headquartered near San Francisco, TurboLinux has offices in Beijing, Buenos Aires, Hamburg, Tokyo and Sydney. The company's home page is located on the Internet at www.turbolinux.com, in Japanese at www.turbolinux.co.jp and in Chinese at www.turbolinux.com.cn.