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HyPerformix Announces Performance Innovation Practice

HyPerformix Inc (formerly SES), a leader in end-to-end performance assurance through predictive modeling, announced Performance Innovation, a Global Practice designed to help Fortune 1000 companies establish in-house performance engineering competencies, disciplines, processes and best practices.

Performance Innovation enables critical performance management to be performed early and continuously in the system development lifecycle, resulting in improved time-to-market and more reliable deployment of critical applications.

"We are extremely excited about the benefits Performance Innovation provides our customers, our partners, and the industry overall," stated Noel Barnard, president and CEO of HyPerformix. "Enabling clients to better support the strategic initiatives of their company through in-house performance engineering drives long-term value and addresses one of the most pressing issues for the success of any eBusiness. Our goal is to help our customers deliver true, end-to-end performance within and across their eBusiness infrastructures."

HyPerformix formalized this offering based on customer demand to ensure mission-critical, revenue-generating systems are available and performing competitively.

"We realized the critical need to build a performance engineering core competency within our company," stated Robert Trapani, Managing Director of Performance Engineering at Charles Schwab. "Customer satisfaction is our top concern, and our online services must continuously meet and/or exceed their expectations. Proactive performance engineering provides us the ability to deliver applications that perform on first deployment."

"We have thoroughly enjoyed working with Charles Schwab in building their performance engineering practice," stated Amy Spellmann, Global Practice Leader for Performance Innovation at HyPerformix. "They have taken a leadership position in modeling performance and in proactively addressing one of the most critical issues facing all Fortune 500 companies in the new economy."

About HyPerformix

HyPerformix, a leader in enterprise-wide simulation modeling, is a global software and services Company enabling customers to predict, analyze and validate the performance of enterprise applications and eBusiness infrastructure. Its unique formula for success combines unparalleled predictive simulation modeling technology, best-of-breed performance engineering expertise, and a performance engineering methodology that is both proven and time-tested. HyPerformix is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and operates offices throughout the U.S. as well as in the U.K. and Central Europe. HyPerformix has channel partners in Japan, Korea, China and Germany. To learn more about the products and services offered by HyPerformix visit www.hyperformix.com.

Contact HyPerformix Inc, Michael Cohen, 512-425-5177, cohen@hyperformix.com.

Oracle Helps Customers Get Clustered

Oracle Corp announced the availability of the Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Accelerator -- a fixed price consulting offer that enables customers to get up and running on Oracle9i Real Application Clusters in as little as ten days. Oracle9i Database's Real Application Clusters delivers an industry breakthrough to customers by offering database technology that can provide virtually limitless application scalability and total availability -- without application or data reconfiguration -- for packaged applications. By bringing together the experience of Oracle Consulting with Oracle9i Real Application Clusters technology, customers are able to quickly and easily transition their Internet applications into a cluster-ready environment in a matter of days.

Contact Letty Ledbetter of Oracle Corp, 650-506-4176, or letty.ledbetter@oracle.com.