Oracle8i(TM) Leads the E-Business Charge With More Than 17,000 Customers; Over 500,000 Copies Now in Developers'
04/11 05:21
Award-Winning Database Is the Standard for High-Growth Sectors: Dot-Coms, Business-to-Business Exchanges and Application Service Providers
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Apr. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- ( oracle.com ) Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software for e-business, today announced that since March 1999 more than 17,000 companies have purchased Oracle8i?, making it the fastest growing and most rapidly adopted database in Oracle's history. In addition, application developers have also indicated their preference by downloading more than 500,000 copies of Oracle8i from the Oracle© Technology Network (OTN). These figures clearly underscore that Oracle8i is the database of choice for e-businesses worldwide, especially among dot-coms, business-to-business exchange and Application Service Providers (ASPs).
"Whether you're a start-up or a billion dollar company, the database is the centerpiece of a solid e-business," said Chuck Rozwat, Oracle executive vice president of Server Technologies. "Oracle8i has emerged as the standard upon which e-businesses are built, and we continue to innovate the Oracle database to provide customers with a real-time competitive edge."
The growth of dot-coms, business-to-business exchanges and ASPs provide continued opportunities for Oracle8i. A recent report by SoundView Technology Group indicates that Oracle's database growth will continue unfettered. In their survey of senior executives and IT managers, SoundView found that spending intentions for the Oracle database are both strong and clearly ahead of competitors -- approximately five times as strong.
Oracle software powers 92 of the USA Today Internet 100. Key dot-com companies, including idmarket.com, quepasa.com and sparks.com, have all migrated to Oracle8i for its reliability and scalability. Oracle8i helps ensure that these dot-coms keep pace with the increasing demands on their web sites, while enjoying strong success.
Oracle8i has proven to be the database backbone for business-to-business exchanges. The database was recently chosen as the cornerstone upon which the top auto, retail, and forest product business-to-business exchanges are being built. These include GlobalNetXchange, the first global online exchange serving the retail industry, with retail giants Sears Roebuck and Co. and Carrefour SA, and fp-xchange, the exchange for the global forest products industry.
In the expanding ASP market, companies including Exodus Communications, Loudcloud, FirstWorld and USinternetworking, also recognize the value of Oracle8i, which provides the 24x7 availability needs that ASPs require. Both business-to-business exchanges and ASPs can also capitalize upon the ability to quickly and easily build or host applications on top of Oracle8i.
Oracle8i, Release 2 Takes E-Business To The Next Level
In Oracle8i, Release 2, Oracle introduced several new powerful capabilities, including advanced, built-in functions for data warehousing; support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition, the latest Java standard; and a high availability database configuration that reduces failover time from minutes to seconds. Oracle8i is the only database currently available that natively supports Java and Extensible Markup Language (XML), a key enabling technology for business-to-business exchanges.
In addition to customer and developer success, Oracle8i has gathered an impressive stable of industry awards and praise from the top industry analyst firms. Leading publications, including InformationWeek, InfoWorld, Intelligent Enterprise, Datamation, NewMedia Magazine and PC Week, have all acknowledged Oracle8i's technical excellence with top awards and favorable product reviews.
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