Oracle Receives Three DM Review 2005 Readership Awards

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. 10-NOV-2005 Oracle announced today that it won three DM Review 2005 Readership Awards for best in “Data Quality,” “Databases and Data Stores,” and “Collaboration, Portals, Unstructured Data, Content & Knowledge Management.” Oracle was selected over numerous competitors in the database, portal, content management and collaboration markets.

The annual Readership Awards program is a well-known tradition for DM Review, the premier publication for data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics. This year, The Gantry Group, LLC, an independent strategic advisory and research firm, asked readers to rate software solutions, based on product quality and customer satisfaction. Affirming the strength of Oracle’s data management products, as well as advancements in collaboration, content management and portal products, readers voted Oracle a winner in several categories. The results of the awards, as well as the new Readership Merit Awards will be published in the December issue. Additional DM Review award information may be found at: http://www.dmreview.com/awards/.

“Our readers, corporate executives and IT managers, recognize the value of real-time access to accurate, relevant information,” said Mary Jo Nott, Editor-in-Chief at DM Review. “Oracle’s top placements in the 2005 DM Review Readership Awards are a reflection of the business benefits that can be achieved using Oracle(r) Database 10g, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g and Oracle Fusion Middleware.”

“It is an honor to be chosen by the users--readers of DM Review--for the quality and customer satisfaction Oracle data management and middleware products provide,” said Robert Shimp, vice president of technology marketing at Oracle. “As customer needs evolve and the information landscape changes, we will continue to develop and deliver innovative and substantial products to meet those needs.”

In the last two years, Oracle has received seven DM Review Readership Awards.

About Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g
Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is the first enterprise-class collaboration product built on the right architecture: Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server. The result is a solution that is secure, reliable, highly scalable and enables organizations to drive down total cost of ownership. It is built on a service-oriented architecture that allows collaboration to become a seamless part of the application infrastructure, helping drive higher efficiencies and levels of productivity. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is the foundation for the collaboration-enabled enterprise and is a part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products that help organizations achieve greater agility, make better-informed business decisions and more easily integrate data and processes across disparate IT systems - including technologies from Oracle and other vendors.

About Oracle Database 10g
The only database designed for grid computing, Oracle Database 10g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers. Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 10g’s unique ability to manage data from traditional business information to XML documents and spatial/location information makes it the ideal choice to power online transaction processing, decision support and content management applications.

About Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a comprehensive middleware product family comprised of the company’s industry-leading SOA and middleware products including: Oracle Application Server 10g, related Oracle Application Server products and options such as Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Web Services Manager, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, Oracle COREid Products, Oracle Portal and Oracle Integration, Oracle Data Hubs, Oracle Content Services 10g, Oracle Real Time Collaboration 10g and Oracle Unified Messaging. This family of proven middleware products helps organizations achieve greater agility, make better-informed business decisions and more easily integrate data and processes across disparate IT systems � including technologies from Oracle and other vendors. Oracle Fusion Middleware also provides customers with comprehensive lifecycle support for service-oriented applications and delivers unparalleled interoperability with enterprises’ existing IT infrastructure due to its unique hot-pluggable architecture. Additional information can be found at www.oracle.com/middleware.

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About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

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