TUSC Announces Support for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control

SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 10, 2003) -- Oracle Corp., the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced that leading partners, including TUSC, Computer Associates, Digex, F5, HP, Micromuse and Sun Microsystems, are working closely with Oracle to develop integration points that will reduce the management complexities of enterprise grid computing and other multivendor technology environments.

As one of the leading system management partners, TUSC is working with Oracle to develop integration points to Oracle 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," said 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."

"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 J. Niemiec, chief executive officer of 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."

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About TUSC
TUSC is an Oracle-based consulting company that provides management and technical consulting support in Database Services, Data Warehousing, Managed Services, Oracle's E-Business Suite, Training & Mentoring and Web Services/Custom Development. TUSC has offices in Chicago (headquarters), Atlanta, Denver, Detroit and Milwaukee. For more information about TUSC, please visit www.tusc.com.

For more information about TUSC, please call Bob Reczek, corporate communications manager, at 800/755-TUSC, or visit the company on the Internet at www.tusc.com.