"Today, 32-bit x86 architecture and RISC processors are the de facto standard in the industry. Customers are demanding more and more power from their database servers, and so they are actually pushing the drive through for more capabilities. Oracle is number one in technology and databases. Its leadership in 64-bit computing that was there several years ago on 264, and the exciting flexible architecture that AMD has proposed with its 32-bit/64-bit computing is the wave of the future.

Customers do not want to spend a lot of money up front on their computing infrastructure. They want to pay as they grow, provide incremental growth without any up front cost. Oracle in combination with AMD is a solution to this.

What the Oracle technology offers is a scalable architecture to Oracle Real Application clusters. With this clustering technology, you get liability. If one server dies, other servers take up that work. This is truly symmetric clustering technology based on sure disk architecture. It is secure. Oracle database is the only database that has got 15 security certifications, independent security evaluations. It is flexible. You can easily move Oracle based applications from 32-bit to 64-bit when you are ready, and it’s very high performance. You have already seen excellent performance on 32-bit and we are seeing an improved performance on 64-bit. Also, when you look at the entire Oracle offerings, Oracle Enterprise Applications and so on, what we have is a combination of very complex software, some 32-bit and some 64-bit, and this is the ideal platform, to grow from 32-bit to 64-bit with a mixture of those applications. Also, the investments of our customers are not lost when they are ready to go to full 64-bit computing.”