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Oracle set to push hardware

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Oracle, the world's largest supplier of business software, expects to accelerate hardware sales led by strong adoption of its high-performance 'engineered systems' line in Asia, especially by large companies on the mainland.

Chief executive Larry Ellison said global sales of Oracle's flagship Exadata database machine were forecast to reach about 3,000 units in the financial year to May 31, up from 1,000 units in the previous financial year.

'We think this product is just going to take off,' Ellison said at his company's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. 'We certainly deliver the fastest computer for business that's ever been built.'

'The idea of engineering the hardware and software - all of it - so it works together gives us the opportunity to deliver better performance and lower cost, better ease of use, better security and better reliability across the board.'

He described iPhone and iPad maker Apple as an example of a company that was 'doing a pretty good job of designing hardware, software and online services that work together'.

Oracle's engineered systems line consists of pre-configured computer platforms - contained in steel cabinets roughly the size of big household refrigerators - that integrate software, servers, storage and networking systems to handle complex business workloads.

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