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Electronic Arts Runs the Sims Online Game Faster and More Reliably, Saves $3.4 Million With Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux

PublisherOracle
Format PDFDate added04 Apr 2008
Topics Business Management, Database Management, Linux Server OS
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Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is the world's largest independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for PCs, game boxes and the internet. EA needed to build a solid computing infrastructure for The Sims Online - one capable of providing fast, uninterrupted service around the clock for hundreds of thousands of online gamers. The solutions provided were Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Consulting. The result was EA could manage the Sims Online with a smaller number of database administrators (DBA) and other IT staff. The personnel savings amount to about $1.93 million over five years, discounted to today's dollars, as shown below.

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