Savant DB Admin Suite Validated Against Oracle8i

Savant Corporation, a market leader of enterprise and wireless performance management solutions, announced the validation of the Savant Database Administration Suite, an application/database performance management solution, against the Oracle8i Appliance, the key component of a complete Internet infrastructure for the small to medium-sized business to deploy Oracle8i, the leading database for e-business.

"Savant Corporation is excited about this relationship with Oracle Corporation," states William Wynn, president and CEO of Savant Corporation. "With Savant products available for the Oracle8i Appliance, we are extending our commitment to provide customers with the best technology to manage critical e-business applications. Whether using an OS server, Internet Appliance, PC or wireless device, customers can be assured that their e-business applications will be continuously available and performing at optimal levels with Savant products."

"In the small to medium-sized business space, a wide offering of leading applications is crucial to the success of a deployment platform," said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Intel Division, Oracle. "Having solutions such as the Savant Database Administration Suite validated against the Oracle8i Appliance helps us provide the most complete e-business solutions possible to our customers. Savant's products help complete our applications offering for the Oracle8i Appliance."

Savant solutions running on the Oracle8i Appliance, gives customers a competitive edge, which determines success or failure in the Internet economy, by lowering the total cost of ownership through simplified application/database administration. The combined solution provides customers with the best Internet software and hardware for scalability, reliability, availability, and ease-of-use under a wide range of operating conditions. Moreover, customers will benefit from a pre-configured, pre-optimized, selfadministering Internet database server while profiting from continuously available, high performance e-business applications.

About Savant Database Administration Suite

The Savant Database Administration Suite is a highly automated, costefficient, and comprehensive way for businesses to manage their missioncritical applications and databases. The Savant Database Administration Suite is a collection of four tightly integrated, data sharing systems management products: Savant Diagnostic Center -- a performance management system, Savant Analyst -- an enterprise performance reporting system, Savant Sensor -- an enterprise event monitoring system, and Savant Profiler -- an application workload analysis system.

About the Oracle8i Appliance

The Oracle8i Appliance integrates standard Intel 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 Web-based 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.

About Savant

Savant Corporation is a market leader of management solutions that enhance the availability, reliability and performance of mission critical production environments and wireless networks. The Company's systems management products include the Database Administration Suite which combines four superior products; Savant Analyst, Savant Sensor, Savant Profiler and Savant Diagnostic Center. The Company's wireless product, Savant Architect, is a wireless network management tool. Savant, a privately owned corporation, develops, supports and markets its solutions to Fortune 500 companies, e-commerce operations, financial institutions and government agencies worldwide. Savant corporate headquarters are located in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information, please visit Savant's Internet address at www.savant.com or call toll free in the United States 800.956.9541 or internationally 301.581.0500.

Contact Erika Batten of Savant Corporation, ebatten@savant.com Website: www.savant.com.