Manager's Guide To Oracle Cost Containment

Understand why the time is right for open source database deployment

Define migration strategies and proven best practices for migrating target applications off Oracle to gain control of database spend

Understand how EnterpriseDB Oracle compatibility solutions make migrations safe, easy, and deliver remarkable ROI & TCO

Identify proven customer examples of migrating to Postgres Plus

Polling question 1

Why are you attending today’s webcast?

General information/education

Developing feasibility plan for future migration

Immediate need to save on Oracle database costs

The Business Case for Oracle Cost Containment

Basic database economic problem is not solved and is getting worse

Proprietary database companies cannot change quickly enough

Oracle pricing practices remain aggressive

Push answer polling question 1

Economics of Open Source vs. Proprietary Databases

8 servers

2 CPUs/server

3 year term

Open Source Database Adoption is Accelerating 2009 OSBC Survey Which technology sector is MOST susceptible to disruption by open source within the next five years? 435 survey respondents Source: Gartner Group

Why Postgres

Community established in 1996

2.5 million downloads of PostgreSQL annually

250 contributors

800,000 messages posted per year

PostgreSQL and Postgres Plus Postgres Plus 8.3R2

5 th Generation Oracle Compatibility

Infinite Cache

Performance & Security

Significant cost savings for non mission critical systems

Leverages all existing Oracle skills

Very low risk

Deploy Postgres Plus as Oracle Replication Server

Significant cost savings

Leverages Postgres Plus Replication Server

Improves transaction and query performance

Migrate non Mission Critical Oracle Apps to Postgres Plus

Significant cost savings

Very low risk

Migrate Mission Critical Oracle Apps to Postgres Plus

Biggest cost savings

Greatest deployment flexibility

Ask polling question 2

What is your most important hurdle to overcome regarding migration?

Prove new technology works

Avoid retraining and hiring costs

Prove sufficient ROI/cost savings

Political issues (leadership biased towards Oracle)

Approval for open source to be used

PL/SQL

Triggers

Functions

Stored Procedures

Packages

Built-in Packages

Built-in Functions OCI SQL Syntax Views Data Dictionary Database Links SQL*Plus Synonyms SQL*Loader Sequences

Answer polling question 2

Dynamic SQL processing

Job creation, scheduling and management

Operations on large objects

SMTP API

Email management interface

Utility management

Explicit transaction control COMMIT/ROLLBACK in procedural programs and functions Transaction Error Recovery Extensions Handle SQL statement level errors without aborting the enclosing transaction. CREATE/DROP TYPE CREATE/DROP user defined objects and nested tables Advanced object type support Procedural specification and use of advanced object types such as nested tables. Objects can be used as procedural arguments and as function return values. Migration Toolkit and Studio Numerous enhancements to facilitate advanced Oracle schema and data migration.

Real World Customer Migration Analysis 80% Savings © 2009 EnterpriseDB Corporation Migration Activity Effort (man-days) PostgreSQL Advanced Server Study of the target system 10 10 Process planning 43 30 Application modification 16.9 2.9 Unit testing 35.5 6.2 Integration testing 18.1 4 Porting of operations 3 3 Performance testing 10 10 Total 136.5 66.1

Migration Methodology Overview

Third party applications

SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, or Informix with server side code

Applications requiring Oracle advanced features such as RAC, advanced queuing or advanced security

JDBC/ODBC applications with Oracle server side code

C, .NET, Perl, Python, or Ruby with no server side code

SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, or Informix with no server side code

Vendor certified applications

PostgreSQL applications

JDBC/ODBC applications with no server side code

Ask polling question 3

What class of applications would you consider for migration?

New

Existing

Both

None

Ask Polling question 4

What category of applications would you consider for migration?

Mission Critical (billing, trading, CRM etc…)

Departmental/non- mission critical (customer services, reporting, BI etc…)

None

Migration Methodology Define Analyze Migrate Test Deploy Acceptance Testing Project Definition On Site Support Project Management / Quality Control / Communication Support Training Application & Database Knowledge Transfer Test Design Spec Effort Estimate Custom Dev Configuration Migration Unit Testing Configure Operating Environment Cut-over to Live © 2009 EnterpriseDB Corporation Scoping Study Migration Requirements Testing Requirements Training Needs Analysis Operating Environment Req. Custom Requirements

Database migration

Application migration

Functional certification

Performance certification

Unit testing

Engineering/test days

Real World Customer Migration Analysis 80% Savings © 2009 EnterpriseDB Corporation Migration Activity Effort (man-days) PostgreSQL Advanced Server Study of the target system 10 10 Process planning 43 30 Application modification 16.9 2.9 Unit testing 35.5 6.2 Integration testing 18.1 4 Porting of operations 3 3 Performance testing 10 10 Total 136.5 66.1

Migration Case Studies and Summary

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