Oracle has unveiled the new version of its application server for conventional and cloud-based C/C++/COBOL applications, Oracle Tuxedo 12c.
The new release suitable to run on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and integrated with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.
Oracle Tuxedo 12c provides mainframe-class scalability and performance for enterprise applications.
The application server has also introduced Oracle Tuxedo Message Queue 12c, which provides transaction management, enhanced performance and improved availability of enterprise messaging applications.
With the new release in combination with other Oracle Tuxedo products offers an application for the development, rehosting and deployment of C/C++/COBOL applications in traditional data centres, engineered systems and enterprise clouds.
The new release includes a shared memory for inter-process communication, which provides eight times improvement in throughput and lowers response time by 80% for Oracle Tuxedo applications, Oracle said.
It also allows optimised, co-existence of C, C++, COBOL, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby applications.
Oracle TSAM 12c is now integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, enabling customers to monitor and manage Oracle Tuxedo and its applications, as well as other Oracle applications, from a single console.
Customers can now develop Oracle Tuxedo applications using Java and leverage the new Oracle Tuxedo integrated development environment plug-in for Oracle Solaris Studio to develop C/C++ applications.
Oracle Tuxedo 12c utilises a configuration tool for deploying Web services, enabling customers to connect with third-party applications.
In addition, the new release provides a configuration only approach to access Oracle Tuxedo applications from Oracle SOA Suite through Java Connector Architecture (JCA) based integration.
Oracle Tuxedo 12c also helps customers to improve productivity, avoid downtime, lower total cost of ownership and provides enhanced security.
Oracle Software Development vice president Frank Xiong said with Tuxedo 12c and the new and enhanced Oracle Tuxedo products customers can cost-effectively take advantage of business-critical applications to increase productivity and reduce costs.
"In addition, the optimized integration between Oracle Tuxedo 12c and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, provides tremendous improvements in application performance, elastic scalability to accommodate load fluctuations and simplified provisioning delivered in a cloud environment,"Xiong said.
