In these challenging times, it makes sense to turn to technology that will help improve your bottom line.

The Oracle9i Database simplifies IT infrastructure and gives you greater control over critical business information. It boosts site availability and streamlines business processes to enhance your bottom line.

The Oracle9i Database helps you cut costs by:

1. Removing the scalability barrier to growing your capacity without limits or drastic changes to hardware or applications.

2. Minimizing investments in computing capacity, such as the emergency computing power you won't use for a year.

3. Minimizing downtime, whether from system failures, human error, or planned maintenance.

4. Securing your valuable information and protecting privacy with multi-layer security.

5. Increasing your IT productivity with self-tuning, self-correcting, and self-managing features.

6. Providing more business intelligence for less with built-in advanced online analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, and data warehousing features.

7. Managing Internet content and files easily and efficiently.

8. Enabling rapid application development on the most integrated Java and XML development environment.

9. Giving you freedom and flexibility in selecting environments and architecture.

1. Removing the scalability barrier
Oracle9i Real Application Clusters removes the scalability barrier, providing virtually limitless growth with a minimum of disruption:

• Multiple servers act as a single system and are managed with the same tools as a single server.
• oracle9i Real Application Clusters provides great scalability while also ensuring that your application keeps running even if one or more servers go down.
• Real Application Clusters eliminates the need to change your application as you add more servers.

2. Minimizing investments in computing capacity
Oracle9i Real Application Clusters can ensure that you don't waste computing power with idle or underutilized servers:

• You don't have to purchase computing capacity for worst case scenarios, capacity that is underutilized for months until "the big one" hits.
• With Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, you can save money both from the low initial server purchase price and from being able to add capacity on demand. You can start small and grow as you need to.

3. Minimizing downtime
Oracle9i Database provides the highest levels of availability through fast failover, easier management, and zero data loss disaster protection, with Data Guard, the only complete data protection solution available on the market:

• Data Guard minimizes risk from all causes of downtime—from system failures, disasters, human error, or planned maintenance.
• A simplified management interface provides faster recovery from system faults and transparent recovery from human error.
• Real Application Clusters protects from loss of application and data availability.

4. Securing your valuable information
Oracle9i Database protects your e-business by securing your valuable information assets and protecting your privacy:

• Oracle is the only vendor that has completed 13 independent security evaluations of its database server products.
• No other vendor integrates multiple layers of security controls to ensure critical data is not compromised.

5. Increasing your IT productivity
Oracle9i Database increases IT productivity with self-tuning, self-correcting, and self-managing features:

• Wizard-driven management makes performing complex operations easier, shortens IT training time.
• Automatic routine backup and recovery reduces IT time.
• Self-correction features protect initialization settings.

6. Providing more business intelligence for less
Oracle9i Database enables you to derive more business intelligence for less, with built-in advanced OLAP, data mining, and data warehousing features:

• The Oracle9i Database analyzes data where it lives, reducing the need for slow, expensive data extraction processes.
• Portal services provide instant information to targeted groups.
• Support of external tables allows for incremental changes.

7. Managing Internet content and files
Oracle9i Database manages Internet content and files easily and efficiently:

• The new Internet File System is capable of storing, searching, securing, and indexing more than 140 document types.
• Search is unified cross diverse information stores.
• Streaming-media support delivers dynamic content.

8. Enabling rapid application development
Oracle9i Database enables rapid application development on the most integrated Java and XML development environment available:

• Service providers and developers can easily customize for specific applications and delivery channels using open and standards-compliant frameworks (Java, SQL, IIOP, XML).
• The new XML data type includes built-in XML developer kits and native XML storage.

9. Giving you freedom and flexibility
Oracle9i Database gives you freedom of choice and flexibility for today's hottest operating environments and clustering architectures including:

• Compaq—Windows NT, Windows 2000, Tru64 UNIX, TruCluster Server, OpenVMS.
• Sun—Solaris (32 and 64 bit), Sun Clusters.
• HP—Windows NT, Windows 2000, HP-UX (32 and 64 bit), ServiceGuard clusters.

For more information about the Oracle9i Database product family

Please contact applicationservices@ebtco.com, if you require immediate assistance.