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ORACLEWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO -- OracleCorp., the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced that leading partners including Computer Associates, Digex, F5, HP, Micromuse, Sun Microsystems and TUSC are working closely with Oracle to develop integration points that will reduce the management complexities of enterprise grid computing and other multi-vendor technology environments. These partners are working with Oracle to develop integration points to Oracle(R) Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Grid Control), the management software used to manage Oracle's new grid computing infrastructure software. Industry standardization of grid computing will create a simplified, efficient and cost-effective way to manage hundreds of servers from a centralized point. Oracle Grid Control will significantly improve the automation of managing Oracle technology and the end-to-end application infrastructure. Working with hardware, networking and security vendors, Oracle will be able to offer rich diagnostics, monitoring and management of critical software and hardware components across grid computing environments. "Open and standard application protocol interfaces will enable partners to easily integrate with the automated management capabilities of Oracle grid computing infrastructure to ensure in-depth monitoring and administration of the enterprise system as a whole," stated Jay Rossiter, vice president, System Management Product Development at Oracle. "Collaborating with our leading system management partners will help serve our customers better, streamlining information shared between our partners' management solutions and the entire Oracle infrastructure." Partner Support "By integrating Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control with HP OpenView Solutions, both companies are collaborating to offer customers the ability to seamlessly manage their changing IT environments," said Todd DeLaughter, vice president and general manager, HP OpenView Business Unit. "HP's depth and breadth of systems and service management capabilities, combined with Oracle's in-depth management of Oracle grid computing, provide customers a well-managed, stable and highly available computing environment." "With Oracle 10g and Sun Microsystems' well-known network computing initiatives, the two companies are essentially tackling the same issue from two separate, but complementary directions," said David Nelson Gal, vice president of N1 Availability and Management, Sun Microsystems. "To truly leverage the next-generation networked computing environment, you can no longer think about managing and optimizing a single box or a single application. You have to optimize the entire infrastructure to deliver optimal application service levels." "Independent software vendors and systems integrators can use the open architecture of Oracle Enterprise Manager to extend the manageability of the Oracle system," said Richard Niemiec, CEO, TUSC. "Working with Oracle will help save development time and accelerate time-to-market of products and services, benefiting customers as they determine roll out strategies."