December 15, 2004 Oracle Chooses VMware's Virtualization As Its Standard By Darrell Dunn Courtesy of InformationWeek Virtualization specialist VMware Inc. and Oracle recently signed a joint development and marketing deal that includes Oracle's standardizing on VMware products. VMware will become the virtualization development platform for Oracle server technologies, and Oracle plans to deploy 7,000 VMware virtual servers internally. The two companies also plan to work together to improve Oracle products running on VMware virtual engines and jointly market end-user products. "We've been seeing great momentum in terms of customers adopting VMware for their production and data-center environments," says Dan Chu, director of global ISV alliances for VMware. "We now have the endorsement of the largest enterprise software vendor in the world." Prem Kumar, VP of server technologies engineering at Oracle, says the use of VMware virtualization products will enable Oracle to better optimize its products for use in multiple Windows and Linux operating-system environments. "We've gotten significant feedback from our customers requesting VMware support," Kumar says. "We will be using VMware as our standard virtualized environment, including building product, testing, and installing, and it will be certified as a standard configuration." E-mail This Story Print This Story Reprint This Story VMWare Aims At Becoming PC Management Standard Dell Expands Relationship With VMware Get the latest Developer news, product info, and trends every week.			VMware Assembles Alliance To Virtualize Desktops Microsoft Snaps Up Asset-Tracking Vendor, Co-Founder Unhappy IE7 For XP Beta 2: Has Firefox Met Its Match? Microsoft Ships IE 7 Beta 2, Final XP Version To Beat Vista Some Mac Resellers Preinstalling Windows XP Microsoft Pushes SQL Server Toward Continuous Hot Availability     Developer Pipeline's Main RSS Feed     Developer Pipeline's Blog RSS Feed VIEW ALL BRIEFING CENTERS Editorial and vendor perspectives Special Report: Are Computers Destroying The Earth? With Earth Day just around the corner, two reporters cross swords over the question of whether computers and technology are helping or hurting the environment. See what they have to say, then vote on who's got it right. Embedded Experts: Fix Code Bugs Or Cost Lives Apple's Boot Camp: Macs Do Windows Microsoft Platforms Chief Talks Co-opetition With Open Source Crash Course: Get a Handle on Web Services Specs and Standards How do recent stories highlighting the ability of Apple's new Intel-based Macs to run Windows as well as Mac OS X affect your view of Macs as development platforms? Macs that can run Windows and OS X? Gimme!     39% Yawn. No thanks.     22% It all comes down to price point. Count me as maybe.     17% Ha. If it doesn't run zOS or Solaris, forget it...     12% Apple? Never! TRS-80 RULEZ!     10% E-fficiency: Web App IDEs Want to give your e-business a competitive edge? Turbo-charge your development projects with one of these Web application development IDEs. Web Site Development Made Easy A "Class" Act: Software IDEs