Oracle8i Appliance Complemented by ISV Solutions

Oracle Corp, a leading provider of software for e-business, announced that Ampersand Corporation, Artemis Management Systems, CIMx, J.D. Edwards, KeepSmart.com, Legato Systems, Macromedia, Netfish Technologies, Professional Software Systems, Sane Solutions, Savant Corporation, Taxware International, Inc., TIBCO Software and Vignette Corporation are among the first independent software vendors (ISVs) to support the Oracle8i Appliance. The Oracle E-Business Suite is already available for the Oracle8i Appliance, a key component of a complete Internet infrastructure for the small to medium-sized business to deploy Oracle8i, a leading database for e-business.

These ISVs are among the first to show support for the Oracle8i Appliance by validating their applications against the appliance at four newly established Application Solution Centers (ASCs), where third-party applications are tested to run with the Oracle8i Appliance. With the validation of a wide range of applications against the Oracle8i Appliance, Oracle and its ISV partners can provide their joint customers with a comprehensive e-business offering.

"We see the Oracle8i Appliance as a cost-effective and reliable e-business deployment platform option for our customers," said Steven Lindahl, manager, OneWorld Tools - Database Technologies at J.D. Edwards. "Validating J.D. Edwards ActivEra Solutions, powered by OneWorld, against the Oracle8i Appliance will further expand our e-business product offering."

The Oracle8i Appliance is a rapidly deployable, pre-configured and selfadministrating database server with an integrated operating system running on Intel-based servers. As a self-administrating deployment platform, the Oracle8i Appliance can lower a customers' total cost of ownership significantly and reduce implementation and configuration time from days or weeks to minutes.

"In the small to medium-size business space, applications can determine the entire infrastructure choice," said Michael S. Rocha, senior vice president of platform technologies for Oracle. "Therefore, our partnerships with industry leading solution providers will help ensure that our customers that are looking for the most cost-effective and reliable e-business platform in the industry will have the widest possible selection of applications by choosing the Oracle8i Appliance."

About the Oracle8i Appliance

The Oracle8i Appliance integrates standard Intel-based SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) servers, a built-in OS kernel and Oracle8i Standard or Enterprise Edition. The integrated software stack additionally includes Oracle Enterprise Manager Appliance Pack for centralized and remote administration of the Oracle8i Appliance; Oracle WebDB, a tool for developing and deploying Webbased applications; Oracle interMedia for storing multimedia data; and Oracle JServer, an integrated Java Virtual Machine. The Oracle8i Appliance requires no onsite database administration support. With a fixed configuration, the Oracle8i Appliance includes built-in redundancy capabilities, automatic fixes and predictive analysis tools, including automatic paging, for remote administration.

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ISV Support for the Oracle8i Appliance

"We chose the Oracle8i Appliance to deploy a large Internet-based quality engineering application in numerous global agencies. The Oracle8i Appliance fits into our product philosophy because we can locate a database application onto a client site, and with Oracle Enterprise Manager, administer it from a remote location, anywhere in the world."

• Bikramjit Gupta Sarma vice president, Technology Ampersand Corporation

"Although the Oracle8i Appliance offers Artemis Web TrackView customers efficiency, price and performance advantages that we have not seen elsewhere, it does not require Artemis customers to have an in-house expert of operating systems or database operations. This is a tremendous benefit to our customers because it minimizes the cost of ownership. Our commitment to making Artemis products available for the Oracle8i Appliance will ensure that our applications are well positioned to serve our customers' Web-based needs."

• John Baldwin senior vice president, Product Operations Artemis Management Systems

"The Oracle8i Appliance enables us to pre-configure CIMx's Web-enabled software applications for rapid, economical customer installation. With the Oracle8i Appliance, CIMx is providing sophisticated navigation of the Web or company Intranet, and all the customer needs to know is how to turn on their computer."

• Tony Cuilwik, Ph.D. president CIMx

"As the leading developer of the most technologically advanced E-Learning solutions for professionals, we needed the most reliable and scalable deployment platform for our dynamic Web environment. The Oracle8i Appliance provides KeepSmart.com with the reliability and scalability of Oracle8i, in a low-cost, rapidly deployable and easy to manage E-Business infrastructure."

• Dr. William K. Grollman president and CEO KeepSmart.com

"We see the Oracle8i Appliance as a very cost-effective and reliable ebusiness deployment platform for the small to mid-size customer on the market today. Ensuring that Legato's solutions run with the Oracle8i Appliance will help give Oracle's e-business customers high quality, transparent data protection that is a critical component for information continuance."

• George Symons, vice president, Product Marketing and Management Legato Systems

"Oracle8i is a leading database for Internet and intranet Web applications, and is among the most popular databases used by the Dreamweaver development community. With the introduction of the Oracle8i Appliance, Oracle will enable small-to-medium sized companies to take advantage of the powerful Oracle database, which will be a win for Macromedia Web application developers."

• Beth Davis Senior Director, Product Management Macromedia

Contact Amy Mack of Oracle Corp, 650-607-2552 amack@us.oracle.com or www.oracle.com.