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ith the combination
of speed, cost, reliability,
and functionality
pushed to the limit, we
have to out perform
the competition in each
category... Linux as
an operating system
has been the fastest
growing with respect
to these requirements,
and were not limited
by whats in front of us.
The quality of the Linux
platform is greatly
important to us and
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux has exceeded
our expectations.
STEVE RUBINOW
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER,
NYSE EURONEXT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Mission-critical functions at the heart of your business such as order entry, fnance, human
resources, customer relationship management, and enterprise resource planning frequently
depend on always-on and scalable Oracle Database functionality. In the past, many businesses
have selected HP-UX/Itanium systems as the backbone of an Oracle Database infrastructure
because they could supply the throughput and availability needed for key database workloads.
In addition, HP-UX/Itanium solutions are backed by the expertise and responsiveness of HPs
worldwide service and support organizations.
The life cycle of an HP-UX/Itanium infrastructure for Oracle Database, however, is rapidly
coming to an end. On July 1, 2013, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Database 12c.
Because cloud deployments are the projected direction for IT services, Oracle Database 12c
follows a multi-tenant architecture that facilitates cloud delivery of database services. It seeks
to simplify database management tasks by managing multiple co-located databases as one,
while simultaneously enabling data isolation and database resource prioritization. Changes to
existing Oracle database tables and applications are not required. However, Oracle supports this
new release only on Solaris, Windows, and Linux

operating systemsand not on HP-UX. This

means that current HP-UX customers must migrate to a different platform to take advantage of
Oracle Database 12c and its ability to ease the transition to a database service cloud.
Red Hat

Enterprise Linux

is a sound platform choice when migrating Oracle Database work-
loads from HP-UX/Itanium. Only Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers enterprise performance, scal-
ability, and reliability similar to HP-UX, comparable instrumentation, and cloud readinessplus
the demonstrated stability of Linux market leadership. This paper highlights the compelling
advantages of hosting Oracle Database workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It also describes
benefts that other businesses have experienced in moving Oracle Databases from HP-UX to a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.
MIGRATE ORACLE DATABASE FROM
HP-UX TO RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
Future-proof your database infrastructure
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e now have an
agile IT infrastructure
with lower TCO that
can adapt quickly to
business changes. Red
Hat technologies on
Intel

Xeon

processor-
based servers also help
us avoid vendor lock-in,
giving us freedom
of choice.
UIJAE LEE
OPERATING TEAM MANAGER,
POSCO ICT
WHY CHOOSE RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR ORACLE DATABASE?
UNIX/RISC systems once boasted unparalleled scalability and reliability in comparison to x86/Linux
systems, especially for demanding business-critical database applications. As powerful, energy-eff-
cient, multi-core x86 systems evolved over the last decade, Linux features and enhancements have
also advanced, capitalizing on these systems performance, availability, and scale to satisfy database
application requirements.
Market share numbers demonstrate how businesses are adopting Linux as a standardized strate-
gic platform for enterprise applications. Recent IDC worldwide server market statistics illustrate
the ongoing trend: for the frst quarter of 2013, UNIX server revenues declined rapidly while Linux
continued to thrive in spite of a sluggish economy and a slight overall downturn in server volumes.
IDC reported a dramatic 35.9% decline in UNIX worldwide server revenues, the seventh consecutive
quarter of revenue decline in the UNIX server market. For the same quarter, Windows servers saw a
4.2% decline in hardware revenues. The Linux server market, however, experienced a modest year-
over-year revenue growth of 3.4%. Linux servers now represent 23.1% of the total server market, up
2.5% over the frst quarter of 2012.
1
In an April 2012 report entitled The Future of UNIX: Hazy and Overcast, So Reach for the Umbrella,
Gartner forecasts that, over the next 5 years, 65% of applications running on proprietary UNIX (e.g.,
Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX) will move to x86 systems, primarily on Linux.
2
Gartner predicts that UNIX
volumes will continue to drop quickly as companies migrate legacy mission-critical applications off
of UNIX and standardize on cost-effective, enterprise-class Linux servers.
THE LINUX LEADER: RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
When planning a migration of your Oracle Database infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an
excellent choice for your enterprise Linux platform. Numerous companies have proven its enter-
prise-class performance and reliability. Thats why Red Hat Enterprise Linux holds the strongest
industry positionwith 65.4% market share of all paid shipments, subscriptions, and non-paid
deployments in 2012.
3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux supplies enterprise scalability, frst-to-market vali-
dated technologies, and solid industry and partner commitment.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux features an extensive ecosystem of hardware and software partners,
giving you a range of deployment options. It offers a greater number of platform, device driver, and
application certifcations than any other Linux, with over 3,600 certifed hardware platforms and
more than 14,000 certifed applications from 1,300 different ISVs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Tier
1 development platform for most hardware and software vendors, which translates into fast time-to-
market for new application releases as well as rapid availability of patches and other updates.
The strong and cooperative nature of Red Hats relationships with hardware and software vendors
contributes to synchronized product roadmaps and fast problem resolution. Red Hat engineers
work closely with Oracle Database certifcation engineers to optimize and qualify Oracle Database
releases on multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.
With a standardized Oracle Database infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you gain
fexibility and choice. You can choose to deploy your database applications on virtually any certifed
1 IDC Market Analysis: Worldwide Operating Systems and Subsystems 20132017 Forecast: 3rd Platform Transitions
Take Hold, Al Gillen, IDC, August 2013, IDC #242635.
2 The Future of UNIX: Hazy and Overcast, So Reach for the Umbrella, Gartner, April 20, 2012.
3 IDC Market Analysis: Worldwide Operating Systems and Subsystems 20132017 Forecast: 3rd Platform Transitions
Take Hold, Al Gillen, IDC, August 2013, IDC #242635.
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x86 platform. If you choose to deploy on HP hardware, you can actually purchase a full solutionHP
ProLiant servers and Red Hat Enterprise Linuxfrom HP, all on the same purchase order. Red Hats
OEM partners work diligently to certify all Red Hat software products on their hardware systems,
collaborating with Red Hat to deliver sales, support, and consulting services.
Because Red Hat Enterprise Linux is open source, it brings you the advantage of continuous com-
munity-powered Linux innovations. At the same time, you gain the benefts of Red Hats stringent
quality assurance testing and evaluation processesbefore you move your core database applica-
tions into production.
Your infrastructure operations receive support through active Red Hat software subscriptions,
which give you 24x7 access to the enterprise-level global support needed for mission-critical data-
base applications. Each major Red Hat Enterprise Linux release on x86 is supported for a 10-year
lifespan, providing a stable and long-lived enterprise platform. When newly introduced features are
mature and thoroughly tested, they are integrated and delivered during the subscription lifecycle
at no additional cost, adding value throughout the subscription lifetime. And an active subscription
entitles you to technical assistance at any timenot just when theres a problem. You can call a Red
Hat Certifed Engineer 24x7 to help you resolve questions and issues quickly, which can help you
meet strict service level agreements (SLAs).
BUILD ON PROVEN SUCCESS
The decision to migrate your Oracle Database workloads to Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a sound one,
proven by existing deployments and successful migrations. Many customers have moved their mis-
sion-critical database infrastructures from HP-UX/Itanium and other RISC/UNIX systems to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on x86 systems. Here are a few examples.
LUFTHANSA CARGO AG
One of the worlds leading cargo and airfreight logistics companies, Lufthansa Cargo AG migrated
its global shipment status processing system on Oracle Database from HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux on HP ProLiant servers. With the assistance of Red Hat Consulting, deployment into produc-
tion took only a single month.
NYSE EURONEXT
NYSE Euronexts equities marketsthe New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE MKT, NYSE
Alternext, and NYSE Arcarepresent one-third of the worlds equities trading. With their migration
to a standardized Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP ProLiant platform, they found enterprise-class
performance, reliability, and security to support their demanding fnancial trading business.
ODYSSEY LOGISTICS & TECHNOLOGY
Odyssey Logistics & Technology (OL&T) delivers a comprehensive portfolio of logistics services
to chemicals and process manufacturing industries so that clients products are delivered safely,
reliably, and economically. OL&T needed to scale its existing IT infrastructure to meet exponen-
tial growth in the business. Specifcally they needed to add Oracle transaction processing capac-
ity beyond what the current HP-UX infrastructure could address. At the same time, reliability was
crucial since new customers included some of the largest and most recognizable names in the
chemical industry. Were integrated right into our customers supply chain operations, and have
to respond in real time to their needs 24/7, said Brad Massey, the director of IT Support Services.
Were mission-critical to them, which means that having a stable infrastructure is mission-critical
to us.
W
e started with
our Oracle Database,
and our HP-UX batch
processing, and were
so pleased with the
results that we have
continued to progress
toward making as much
of our infrastructure as
possible run on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
BRAD MASSEY
IT DIRECTOR,
ODYSSEY LOGISTICS & TECHNOLOGY
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POSCO ICT
As an IT service provider, POSCO ICT built and maintained an IT infrastructure to deliver services
to its customers, including database applications such as enterprise resource planning, enterprise
application integration, and content management. Over time, its IT infrastructure became complex,
spanning many different servers and operating systems (including HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux, and
Microsoft Windows). POSCO ICT replaced its legacy IT infrastructure with a new one based on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel

Xeon

processor-based servers. To support the migration,

Red Hat delivered quality technical services managed through a Technical Account Manager (TAM)
who had a deep understanding of the project.
MIGRATE TO AN ENTERPRISE-READY PLATFORM
By migrating to an Oracle Database infrastructure, these companies learned that the combination
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and x86 servers forms an effective, mission-critical alternative to RISC/
UNIX systems. By choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linuxthe market-leaderthese businesses and
others have deployed an enterprise-class, production-ready Linux. Theyve proven that the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux platform supplies the performance, scalability, availability, security, and man-
ageability needed to drive core Oracle applications at the heart of their businesses. The next few
pages elaborate on how Red Hat Enterprise Linux creates an enterprise-ready platform for Oracle
Database and other mission-critical applications.
OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND SCALE
When combined with powerful and scalable Red Hat Enterprise Linux software, advanced multi-core
Intel and AMD x86 processors bring unprecedented performance and scalability to enterprise data-
centers. In a migration project, many companies experience performance gains that translate to
increased scale with fewer servers, even for demanding enterprise applications like Oracle Database.
Because the OS features excellent performance and scalability under increasing loads, system
vendors often select Red Hat Enterprise Linux when showcasing product performance using indus-
try-standard benchmarks. For evaluating database performance, hardware vendors often run the
Transaction Processing Councils Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) system benchmark, TPC-C,
or the decision support benchmark, TPC-H. As shown in Figure 1, they frequently select Red Hat
Enterprise Linux to achieve optimal performance: 33% of TPC-C results and 100% of TPC-H results
published in 2012 used Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the operating system platform.
4
Benchmark results are tangible proof that reinforces performance and scalability claims. For
instance, the frst TPC-C result ever published for a virtualized environment used Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and its integrated KVM hypervisor to demonstrate remarkable performance with virtualization
when compared with physical servers.
5
4 As of June 1, 2013. Percentages based on published benchmarks during calendar year 2012. Further information
available at http://www.tpc.org. TPC-C and TPC-H are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance
Council (TPC).
5 See http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/reference-architectures/leadership-virtualized-tpc-c-benchmark-using-
red-hat-enterprise-linux-kvm.
Figure 1. % of Popular TPC
Benchmarks Published in 2012 on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes scalability features that help to optimize performance, includ-
ing support for increased processor counts and larger memory footprints, improved I/O throughput,
and integrated resource management. The whitepaper Scaling with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
describes many of these features and how they can accelerate throughput and increase scale.
6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is ideal for consolidating Oracle Database workloads. When consolidating
applications on a single server, its critical that each workload gets the system resources it needs.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 features control groups, or cgroups, that allow an administrator to
allocate and control resources that any one process, or set of processes, can consume. Thus, its
easy to run each database server with well-defned CPU and memory limits while running applica-
tion servers and web servers with their own set of compute, memory, and networking resources. The
system then automatically manages and balances resources for the various processes, delivering
more predictable response times.
SCALE DOWN COST, SCALE UP PERFORMANCE
Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux brings substantial opportunities for cost savings. Legacy
RISC/UNIX systems often carry high maintenance fees and uplifts as they reach end-of-life. New
generation x86 processor and system designs are more power and cooling effcient, leading to
savings in energy-related expenses while meeting corporate mandates for green IT. Consolidating
multiple database workloads can also yield additional effciencies, reducing the physical footprint,
infrastructure complexity, and administrative burden.
Moving to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux and x86 platform can dramatically cut costs. In an analysis by
Alinean, Inc. (a leading independent ROI consultant), fve companies that migrated from RISC/UNIX
systems to x86 systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux experienced a total cost of ownership
(TCO) savings of up to 61% over 3 years.
7
Red Hat is confdent that you can substantially reduce TCO when you move Oracle Database work-
loads from HP-UX or other UNIX systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Thats why Red Hat makes
available a TCO tool created by Alinean to predict the economic benefts of a migration. Alinean
independently developed this calculator using information provided by Red Hat as well as pub-
licly available data. The calculator compares projected costs of growing and maintaining a current
UNIX-based server environment with the costs of migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based
infrastructure. You can access the tool from the site https://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/onli-
netools/tco-calculator, using it to generate an initial estimate of your potential TCO savings.
MEET SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports strategic Oracle applications representing millions of dollars
in fnancial trades, transactions, business decisions, and commercial operations each day. When
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is combined with the resiliency of todays x86 servers, you can deploy a
dependable solution for mission-critical applications.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes advantage of advanced RAS features in the latest x86 processors,
supporting physical CPU hot swap, hot-add and logical CPU off-lining to minimize unplanned down-
time. Proactive self-healing capabilities in the operating system automatically diagnose and isolate
defective CPUs or memory components, enabling quick recovery from certain hardware and applica-
tion faults.
6 http://www.redhat.com/rhecm/rest-rhecm/jcr/repository/collaboration/sites%20content/live/redhat/web-cabinet/
static-fles/documents/RHEL6_Scalability_WP.pdf
7 Migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Lower the Total Cost of Ownership, Alinean, December 2011.
W
e needed to
fnd alternative
solutions that would
signifcantly reduce
the TCO without any
compromise on other
parameters such as
performance, reliability,
and scalability of the
solution... Red Hat
solutions allow you to
extract more from your
systems to generate
excellent performance
at a very low cost. We
estimate a reduction
of at least 50 percent
in the total cost of
ownership due to the
migration exercise.
SATISH PAI
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR MANAGER,
MARICO
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OPTIMIZE SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE
Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux is open source, it benefts from having an extensive developer
community and numerous security experts who contribute and review the open source code. The
open source model yields a strong code base while supporting innovation of new security features.
Historically, the model has produced security enhancements such as access control features, cryp-
tographic libraries, and trusted utilities for host, network, and application security. Today Red Hat
Enterprise Linux provides comprehensive security tools and a complete security stack, from network
frewall control to SELinux mechanisms for access control enforcement.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux incorporates military-grade security technologies that have allowed the OS
to be certifed, including virtualization, at the Common Criteria EAL4+ level for trusted deployments.
(The EAL4+ certifcation is the highest level of assurance that a standard commercial operating
system can achieve without any special modifcations.)
For business-critical Oracle applications, Red Hats subscription model is an important element
in maintaining the security of the operating environment. Red Hat proactively releases periodic
software updates and patches to address bugs, provide enhancements, and improve security
mechanisms. In addition, Red Hat engineering specifcally its global Security Response Teamis
dedicated to investigating reported security vulnerabilities, quickly releasing security fxes for all
supported Red Hat products and services if an exposure is discovered.
A testimonial to the robust security of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is its wide deployment in fnancial
institutions and stock exchanges. NYSE Euronext, which operates exchanges in the U.S. and Europe,
selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run its mission-critical global trading platforms. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux platforms at NYSE Euronext handle billions of messages each day, and must deliver
the highest degree of security, reliability, and performance at all times.
MANAGEABILITY
Red Hat offers comprehensive tools to help you manage your datacenter effectively and effciently.
Red Hat Satellite is an enterprise-wide management framework that automates administrative tasks,
including patching and updates, making your datacenter more secure, manageable, and consistent.
Red Hat Satellite takes advatange of RPM, the well known, built-in package management technol-
ogy used by administrators in the large Red Hat Enterprise Linux installed base. RPM is capable of
tracking and resolving software package dependencies for datacenter servers. For Oracle Database
installations, Red Hat Satellites ability to resolve software dependencies quickly helps to expedite
time-to-deployment. Once database applications are installed, tuned, and running, Red Hat Satellite
allows careful certifcation, tracking, and sign-off of any additional software changes, which helps to
increase uptime for your production environment.
W
e are very security
conscious because
we have to be. The
operating system is a
key part of every server
that we operate and
each server must be
secure at all times. We
maintain the security
of our systems by
relying on the SELinux
features within Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
STEVE RUBINOW
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER,
NYSE EURONEXT
T
hrough our use of Red
Hat Satellite, Odyssey
has realized: centralized
confguration
management and
compliance, faster
patch deployment
and more streamlined
server deployment.
BRAD MASSEY
IT DIRECTOR,
ODYSSEY LOGISTICS & TECHNOLOGY
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CLOUD READINESS
As you begin to plan for a migration of your Oracle Database workloads, consider how your infra-
structure will advance towards a cloud-based service delivery model. Whether you choose to pursue
service delivery via an on-premise, hybrid, hosted, or public cloud, Red Hat technologies can help to
ease the shift to cloud-based computing.
A Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform simplifes transitions between physical, virtual, and cloud
service delivery. Many IT departments fnd migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux creates an oppor-
tunity to consolidate and virtualize Oracle workloads, which can optimize resource use and increase
agility. At the same time, virtualizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux can lay the foundation for cloud
computing. The OS provides ABI/API compatibility from the physical server to the virtual guest, so
that applications are supported whether installed on physical servers or in a virtual host.
Red Hat offers solutions that extend the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product family into cloud envi-
ronments. As the need for cloud-based service delivery evolves, you can deploy cloud-enabled
workloads on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack

Platform, allowing you to transition to an

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model according to your requirements and timeframes.
Today, most public cloud offerings are built on Linux, and almost all of them implement Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Red Hat collaborates closely with Amazon EC2, IBM, Fujitsu, and others to deliver
cost-effective and reliable technologies to integrate and deliver public cloud services.
SIMILARITIES TO HP-UX
Red Hat Enterprise Linux shares a number of similarities to HP-UX, making it easier to migrate
Oracle Database workloads to Linux. Many of the tools in Red Hat Enterprise Linux are similar to
tools that HP-UX administrators use, including these examples:
The Kickstart auto-installer, which is similar to Ignite-UX
RPM and yum, which have functionality similar to swinstall
General administrative tools like vmstat, iostat, netstat, route, ifconfg, ping, nlsookup, and
chroot, which have equivalent UNIX counterparts
SystemTap and top performance analyzers, which are similar to HP Caliper. (Caliper is also avail-
able for Linux.)
These and other similarities allow your staff to be productive quickly with a minimal amount of
retraining, making Red Hat Enterprise Linux a logical choice for HP-UX migration. To prepare your
staff for the transition, Red Hat also offers a broad selection of administrative coursework, includ-
ing courses to achieve the Red Hat Certifed Engineer qualifcation, the defacto industry standard for
Linux administration.
B
ecause of the
success of our
migration and Red
Hats broad ecosystem
of technologies and
partners, we are now
considering other Red
Hat solutions such as
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, Red Hat
Storage Server, and Red
Hat Cloud solutions.

UIJAE LEE
OPERATING TEAM MANAGER,
POSCO ICT
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GET THE MIGRATION GUIDE
Red Hat has published a migration planning guide titled HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Strategic Migration Planning Guide (available for download at http://www.redhat.com/solutions/
migration/migrate-from-unix-platforms/). The guide supplies detail about different phases in a
typical migration project, details the recommended process, and suggests common timelines (Figure
2). It also provides information on implementation standards, available training, and best practices.
Red Hat Consulting offers a wide variety of workshops, training, and services to help you implement
your strategic migration plan and create fexible and scalable deployments. Leveraging industry-
accepted practices and experience, Red Hat consultants can help you with key tasks:
Developing strategic deployment recommendations
Defning realistic roadmaps; evaluating application and hardware solutions
Implementing custom Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
deployments
Transitioning to cloud-based service delivery
Optimizing security
Implementing system management and monitoring
Developing and implementing a strategy for cloud governance.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
In all likelihood, your current HP-UX/Itanium infrastructure has served you well in the past, provid-
ing the robust Oracle Database performance and availability that your mission-critical applications
have required. However, considering that no future releases of Oracle Database will be supported on
HP-UX, the time has come to decide how your database infrastructure will evolve. Planning a migra-
tion to a Linux platform is the logical next step.
Red Hat is the leader in the Linux marketplace, with the highest market share for paid server operat-
ing environments
8
and the largest number of contributions to the upstream Linux kernel.
9
The Red
Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem of hardware and software solutions offers you many deployment
optionsmore than most other commercial Linux distributions. And, as highlighted earlier in this
paper, there are many companies who have already successfully accomplished the migration that
you now anticipate. These businesses have frst-hand experience with the benefts that a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux platform brings to Oracle Database applicationslower TCO, solid performance
and scalability, high availability, rigorous security, and ease of management.
8 IDC Market Analysis: Worldwide Operating Systems and Subsystems 20132017 Forecast: The Future of a Two-OS
Market, Al Gillen, IDC, August 2013, IDC #242635.
9 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/infographics/who-writes-linux-2013
R
ed Hat Consulting
offers the most
impressive support
Ive experienced in
my 13-year career in
enterprise IT. Red Hat
Consultings knowledge
and the speed with
which the team
resolved all issues was
instrumental in bringing
SSP [Shipment Status
Processing system] into
production in such a
short period of time.
ANTONIO MASTROLORITO
CHIEF IT ARCHITECT,
LUFTHANSA CARGO
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Get started on your strategic migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux by taking these frst steps:
Attend a Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration webinar
Download the HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Strategic Migration Planning Guide at
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Develop a plan for a pilot project. You can evaluate a current Oracle Database application (e.g.,
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Contact your Red Hat sales representative and get started today.
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e needed a good
partner and found one
in Red Hat. We were
looking for a partner
that was offering
reliable software and
one that would help
and advise on its use
while providing the
value of trusted support
services. Red Hat
satisfed our objectives.
STEVE RUBINOW
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER,
NYSE EURONEXT
WHITEPAPER Migrate Oracle Databases from HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux