In2M Selects Oracle Database Standard to Support its Subscriber Base

In a bid to support its subscriber base, In2M has opted to go with Oracle (News - Alert) Database Standard Edition. In2M Corporation offers financial productivity applications to personal and business users in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia.

“We use Linux and open source platforms because it's cost effective,” said Jason Law, Vice President of IT and Systems R & D for In2M, in a statement. "But we were not comfortable with an open source database product for delivering high-availability software as a service.

Law continued: “Oracle Database Standard Edition gives us the reliability we need now, and will scale to meet our future needs for some time to come, even despite our aggressive growth plans. Our target is 99.99 percent availability, and Oracle has not failed us since we started using it.”

In2M has declared that Oracle's support services will be a key part of its total Oracle package for In2M. In fact, its next product, Mvelopes Business will be based on Oracle Database Standard Edition. In addition, In2M aims to benefit from another unique Oracle capability, Oracle Real Application Clusters.

"The possibilities in Real Application Clusters were another big reason for us choosing Oracle," said Law. "Right now we're running a proof-of-concept, merging databases under Real Application Clusters, to check out the architecture before moving forward. We believe that Real Application Clusters makes Oracle Database Standard Edition powerful enough to support us for the next four years, even given our high growth rate, the critical need for high-availability and high performance for our customers."

Over the last 12 months, In2M has enrolled over 50,000 users in Mvelopes Personal. The company hoped to add 100,000 subscribers in the next 12 months.

Author: Niladri Sekhar Nath @ TMCnet