Machines of Exadata X 2 of Oracle are now certified to run applications from rival SAP, following the recent measures by SAP to move customers off the coast of Oracle database platforms.
Exadata X 2 is the second generation of processing machines Oracle data for analytical and transactional workloads. Systems, which include software and specialized equipment and using the Oracle database, were the main objectives of the company in recent years.
The SAP certification was valid Friday and applies to products that are based on NetWeaver 7.x and certified for the Oracle 11 g Release 2, according to the site Web of SAP based.
First, the SAP, and Oracle all announced that they worked together on Exadata certification in June 2010. Which occurred shortly after the launch of its SAP produces HANA (High Performance Analytic Appliance), an in-memory computing platform which is supported by a number of hardware vendors.
At its Conference of Sapphire in may, responsible for SAP discusses HANA capacity in support of transaction and analytics processing, although it will be some time until it was ready to replace Oracle for the execution of the SAP Business Suite applications.
Term nearer, SAP moved certify the database Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) for Business Suite and plans to offer it as an option of migration for many shops SAP running Oracle now. SAP acquired ASE through the acquisition of the year last of Sybase, which is now managed as an independent subsidiary.
A FAQ document on the Oracle Web site painted Exadata as a must-see SAP installed base.
"Virtually all relevant SAP customers run multiple Oracle databases with several SAP application solutions," she said. "All these"SAP databases"can consolidated in Oracle Exadata database Machine that translates into benefits and effective functioning."
In addition, the document "it can be assumed that between 70 and 80 per cent of all SAP customers also use Oracle database of fine non - SAP servers," adds. "Exadata can be considered a consolidation platform for any type of Oracle database, regardless of the application."
Oracle has maintained that it is relatively free of pain for current database clients move workloads to Exadata. If so, this gives Oracle a potential advantage on SAP as Sybase ASE goes, because true database migration can be difficult, depending on how the original application was written.
Sybase is "very committed" to the provision of services for database migration projects, CEO John Chen said in an interview with IDG News Service last month. A number of large companies is already projects running pilots of migration ASE, Chen said at the time.
It is not surprising that Oracle and SAP would cooperate on Exadata support despite their rivalries, analyst Curt Monash of Monash Research.
He said "Coopetition works very in trench engineering". "They could not attest of day to the next, and they hate everyone so that they work together.".
There are also a few points to consider regarding the intentions of SAP to migrate Oracle customers, to its own database platforms according to Monash.
"For most companies, there is good reason to use Oracle to Sybase ASE to perform Business Suite itself," he said. "But maybe they use apps non-SAP in conjunction with SAP that do not yet support Sybase.". And maybe their Oracle licenses are priced so that there is no reason to move to Sybase ASE. »
For SAP customers who choose Exadata, the moving process should be fairly simple, Forrester Research Analyst James Kobielus.
"We talked to many users of Exadata," he said. "Most of the time they did not express any difficulty that migrate the Oracle stack and make it run well on Exadata.".
Chris Kanaracus covers business and technology software General breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris's e-mail address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com
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