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March 8, 2025 RED HAT SHIPS RED HAT LINUX ENTERPRISE EDITION OPTIMISED FOR ORACLE 8i New Enterprise Product Line Offering Supported by Red Hat and Tested by Both Oracle and Red Hat Increases Linux Database Performance for E-Business and the Enterprise Red Hat, the leading provider of open source solutions, and Oracle Corporation, the largest provider of software for e-business, today announced the availability of the Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition product line that has been optimised for Oracle8i to support high-volume e-business and enterprise applications. Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition for Oracle8i will be available within 30 days through Compaq's and Red Hat's value-added distribution channels, including Keylink/Pioneer and Hallmark/AVNet. Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition for Oracle delivers on Red Hat's commitment to provide reliable, scalable and highly available open source solutions in the enterprise environment. Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition for Oracle offers performance and usability improvements for enterprise-class database operations. Performance and Usability Enhancements Raw I/O: Supports direct access to disks to increase Oracle disk throughput, resulting in faster database access and decreased memory pressure for more efficient use of memory. Large Memory: Increases physical RAM used to 4 GB. 64-bit file I/O: Allows access to files greater than 2 GB in size, enabling scalable database production servers. Integrated Java Run-time Environment (JRE): Allows efficient configuration of Oracle database systems from Linux desktop using Oracle's Java configuration tools. Motif 2.1: Provides GUI libraries for Oracle development and administrative tools. "Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition for Oracle is a clear indication of Linux's ascension into the most business-critical applications in the enterprise,'' said Colin Tenwick, Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Europe. "As we continue to develop innovations with leaders such as Oracle, we will seek to meet the growing demand for Linux in enterprise applications.'' "Once again Red Hat has delivered improved Linux database performance to the growing number of corporate enterprises that demand the performance of Oracle8i and the reliability of Red Hat Linux,'' said Michael Rocha, senior vice president, Platform Technologies Division, Oracle. "Demanding e-business environments need the scalability and wider data access made possible by this new enterprise offering from Red Hat.'' "Customers are assured of successful system deployment when leading industry players combine to provide value through integration,'' said Ray Villareal, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Solutions and Services Group, Compaq Computer Corporation. "Certified and supported solutions from Compaq, Red Hat and Oracle mean that Linux customers can now implement their e-business solutions at the lowest cost with minimum risk.'' Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition for Oracle includes enterprise incident-based support and an annual maintenance subscription to ensure that production servers are fully and consistently supported by Red Hat. Pricing and Availability The Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition product line is a collaborative effort between Red Hat and industry leading application providers designed to deliver optimised solutions, incorporating support and simplified configuration of well-known enterprise and Internet applications, to enterprise customers. Red Hat and its partners then work together to produce a tested, integrated and configured enterprise solution that assures maximum reliability, performance and availability. In keeping with its commitment to open source and the open source development community, Red Hat will continue to freely share all modifications to the Linux OS with the open source community under public licenses. Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition which has been optimised for Oracle8i will be available within 30 days through Compaq's and Red Hat's value-added distribution channels, including Keylink/Pioneer (www.keylink.pios.com) and Hallmark/AVNet (www.hallmark.avnet.com). Available in the U.S. and internationally, the enterprise edition can be purchased through value-added distribution channels and can be ordered directly from www.redhat.com. Open Source Momentum International Data Corp. (IDC) research states that Linux-based operating systems were the fastest-growing server operating environment in 1998, growing more than 190 percent in that year alone and capturing more than 15.8 percent of the 4.4 million revenue shipment server operating environment market. Red Hat's numerous alliances with industry leaders and the demand for Linux-based applications has created open source support from many of the industry's leading software and hardware manufacturers, including Compaq(r), Computer Associates, Corel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Netscape, Novell, Oracle(r) and SAP(r). Red Hat Linux runs on Intel, Alpha and Sun SPARC platforms. About Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation provides the software that powers the Internet. For more information about Oracle, please call Oracle Public Relations at 650/506-4176, or visit http://www.oracle.com/. About Red Hat, Inc. Founded in 1994, Red Hat is a leader in the development of Linux-based operating system software (OS) and services. Based in Durham, N.C., Red Hat builds the most accessible and advanced server OS available anywhere with technical innovations such as RPM and the disk druid installation tool. Red Hat Linux is available for Intel, Compaq Alpha and Sun SPARC platforms. Red Hat Linux available directly from the company and through Red Hat's partner, distributor and reseller programs, which include top PC and server manufacturers like Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for four years in a row, was given a productivity accolade in Software Development's Jolt Awards, was named an environment/desktop finalist in the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards, won the editor's choice awards from the Linux Journal and Australian Personal Computing magazines, and won the 'Just Plain Cool' award from Australian Personal Computing magazine. At March's LinuxWorld Expo, more than 8,000 members of the Linux community voted Red Hat a 'LinuxWorld Favorite'. Red Hat Linux recently won a Product Excellence award from Software Development Magazine. LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. 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