Oracle Joins Winter Corp DB Scalability Program Sponsors

Winter Corporation announced that Oracle Corporation has become a sponsor of the fifth annual Database Scalability Program.

Winter Corporation, which administers the program, is a leading consulting firm that studies the impact of large-database technology on business trends. Winter provides research, consulting and education services that help users and vendors define database solutions, architect implementations, and manage scalability issues. The company focuses on database technology near, at and beyond the frontier of scalability.

Database Scalability Program 2000 analyzes the characteristics of the world's largest databases, and examines databases supporting the world's largest workloads. These vast data repositories anchor e-commerce, business intelligence, supply-chain management, customer relationship management, resource management and other business-critical applications.

"The Database Scalability Survey program provides a highly visible framework for demonstrating Oracle database technology for very large data warehouse implementations," said Michael Howard, Oracle Corporation vice president, data warehouse program office. "Customers with large data volumes and workloads represent many of the e-businesses worldwide that employ Oracle for a highly reliable, scalable, and secure database and application architecture.

"Building an e-business enterprise requires scalability, reliability and tight integration between applications, continually refreshed data warehouses, and multiple information sources," Howard continued. "Business intelligence infrastructures must also have almost intuitive processes so that all endusers maximize their organizational worth through demonstrated decision-making capabilities. Oracle is committed to enabling Internet-based operations that allow companies to operate both efficiently and seamlessly."

Richard Winter, president of Winter Corporation, added:

"We're pleased to welcome Oracle as a sponsor of our program. Oracle's leadership in the broader database market and strong presence across the landscape of large databases make their support of our program especially meaningful."

Other Database Scalability Program 2000 sponsors include EMC Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp, Informix Corp, Microsoft Corp, NCR Corp, NetGenesis Corp, and Sybase Inc. Surveys will be accepted through August 31, and awards identifying the top databases will be announced and distributed soon afterwards.

About Winter Corporation

Winter Corporation is a leading center of expertise in database scalability for e-business, enterprise applications and business intelligence. The company provides research, consulting and education services that help users and vendors define their database solutions, architect their implementations, and manage their scalability issues. Winter Corporation focuses on database technology near, at, and beyond the frontier of scalability. For more information, contact Winter Corporation at info@wintercorp.com, on the World Wide Web at www.wintercorp.com, or call 617-695-1800.

Contact Winter Corporation, Kathy Auerbach, 617-695-1800, Kathy.Auerbach@wintercorp.com.