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ORACLE EXPANDS DIGITAL DELIVERY WITH CONXION

Conxion Corporation, the reliability and performance leader in managed hosting and digital delivery, has expanded its relationship with Oracle to include more digital delivery and storage services. Beginning June 1, Oracle has been using Conxion's HotRoute Digital Delivery Network (DDN) for the distribution of additional software titles, along with documentation from Oracle's online developer network, Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

All content will be distributed from Conxion's network, which Oracle already uses to manage the electronic delivery of many of its software titles, including the Oracle9i Database.

The DDN also supports the Oracle E-Business Network (EBN) and Oracle University Online Learning. The EBN content includes programming related to Oracle product seminars and presentations. Oracle University Online Learning offers classroom-simulated training for a number of Oracle products and services.

Conxion has a large storage area network (SAN) supporting many of its customers. For Oracle, Conxion directly allocated six terabytes of storage to hold more than one thousand software titles -- currently all on CDs. "Using Conxion's secure network for digital delivery of Oracle9i has been extremely successful and cost-effective, so we are pleased to be moving our software and related documentation to that model," said Campbell Webb, Oracle senior director of Web Services -- Global IT. "We believe our customers will find this method much more convenient than having to manage multiple CDs, and this also reduces our manufacturing and shipping costs."

"Oracle has always been ahead of the curve in using the Internet to reduce costs and improve business performance, and this further validates Conxion's high capacity network-centric DDN strategy -- which can accelerate any application, using any OS from any datacenter," said Antonio Salerno, Conxion's founder and chief executive officer. "By the end of this year I think we'll see many large software companies, as well as music and movie studios, emulating Oracle's decision to go with digital delivery rather than make and ship physical CDs or DVD's. Conxion's ability to allow the customer to use the server/OS of their choice, plus allow them root access, at any datacenter, is something closed Linux box systems can't do."

About Conxion

Conxion Corporation, www.conxion.com, is a reliability and performance leader in managed hosting and digital delivery, featuring an integrated Internet infrastructure that leverages its Tier 1 global network, seven strategically located datacenters in the United States and Europe, and 15 points of presence to offer fully managed hosting. Headquartered in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, CA.), Conxion is a privately held corporation.