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Strong Momentum For Oracle9i Database On Intel Itanium

Oracle Corp., one of the world's largest enterprise software companies, announced strong momentum for Oracle9i Database on Intel Itanium processors, as validated by the number of developers seeking to build and deploy their ebusiness applications with Oracle database technology on Itanium. Oracle is the leading database provider for 64-bit architecture and the first to offer an early release of its database technology for Itanium-based systems since December 2001. To date, more than 22,000 downloads of Oracle's database technology have been recorded for the Itanium processor from the Oracle Technology Network.

Based on the wide-scale support from developers and partners, Oracle today also announced a beta program with end-users, independent software vendors (ISVs) and customers for Oracle9i Database Release 2 on the Windows.NET Server 64-bit operating system. The Oracle beta program on Itanium 2 enables customers and partners to extensively test and validate enterprise-class applications running on Oracle's industry leading database with 64-bit Intelbased hardware. Oracle continues to demonstrate its commitment to provide nextgeneration, multi-platform solutions to customers by offering its developer community a head start on designing leading-edge enterprise applications for Linux64; HP-UX; and Windows.NET Server 64-bit Edition. The three operating systems are based on the Itanium architecture.

"Oracle is the leader in 64-bit database technology and was the first to make this technology available for the Itanium processor family developer community," said Doug Kennedy, vice president of Platform Alliances, Platform Technologies Division at Oracle Corp. "As operating systems vendors introduce production releases for the Itanium 2 processor, Oracle will extend its market leadership by providing production releases of our database technology."

ENTERPRISE APPLICATION MIGRATION TO 64-BIT ARCHITECTURE

As the leader in providing proven database solutions, Oracle enables customers to grow the performance, scalability and availability of their databases on demand, by using Oracle9i Real Application Clusters. Oracle's database clustering enables customers to run any packaged application with superior scalability and reliability across multiple computers. Oracle9i Database, coupled with the Itanium processor family of servers, provides customers with a highly scalable, cost-effective, stable platform to build and deploy enterprise-class applications.

With Oracle's proven industry leadership and track record on 64-bit computing, developers using an early access release of Oracle technology on the Itanium processor family will find the technical excellence that Oracle continues to offer. "As leaders in providing enterprise class technology, Intel and Oracle have realized that customers want solutions that run well on high-performing, scalable and reliable hardware platforms -- while also lowering costs," said John E. Davies, vice president and general manager for Intel's Solutions Market Development Group. "Intel and Oracle have a long-standing technology relationship, and have worked together to optimize the Oracle database on Intel processors, including the Itanium 2 processor. We are confident that the Oracle9i Database beta program on the Itanium 2 processor will ensure that the underlying infrastructure for customer deployments is solid."

By downloading the developer release of Oracle9i Database for the Itanium processor family, customers, partners and developers can rapidly build, test and deploy their business applications with the production availability of operating systems on Itanium 2. For a free developer release of Oracle9i Database for the Itanium processor family available for Linux64, HP-UX and Windows XP 64-bit, please visit www.otn.com.

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