PHCM & Oracle. A Little More Info
JohnG
Tuesday October 12, 4:30 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Oracle Corporation
Oracle and Phone.com Transform
Telcos Into Wireless Portal
Providers
GENEVA, TELECOM'99, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL - news),
the number one choice for e-business, and Phone.com (Nasdaq: PHCM - news), a leader in
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) infrastructure software for wireless networks, today
announced they are working together to leverage Oracle's knowledge of the enterprise and
Phone.com's expertise in the wireless Internet arena. This collaboration by the two leaders will
provide an end-to-end solution for enabling Internet and Intranet information access and
services from wireless handsets. Oracle? Portal-to-Go (which was announced today) works
seamlessly with Phone.com's WAP product family to enable the design and deployment of
wireless Internet and Intranet portals.
``We expect that the introduction of Oracle Portal-to-Go will propel the Wireless Application
Protocol (WAP) standard and adoption of wireless Internet access and services,' said Ben
Linder, vice president of Marketing for Phone.com. ``Oracle Portal-to-Go is complementary to
Phone.com's UP.Link(TM) Server, UP.Browser(TM) microbrowser, and MyPhone Service.
While MyPhone is a service offering for carriers operated by Phone.com, Oracle Portal-to-Go
is available to carriers who wish to build and operate services themselves.'
Phone.com and Oracle are working together to empower mobile phone subscribers to directly
and instantly perform wireless e-business from wireless phones that include a WAP compatible
microbrowser such as the Phone.com? UP.Browser?. Oracle Portal-to-Go includes a toolkit
wireless network operators can use to rapidly build Internet portals. The companies intend to
approach mutual customers through joint business development and marketing efforts. Wireless
carriers will benefit from the ability to develop their own branded portal sites for wireless
subscribers.
``Phone.com provides a combined best-of-breed WAP browser, WAP gateway and WAP
development environment for bringing Oracle Portal-to-Go services live on a wireless network,'
said Denise Lahey, vice president of the Mobile and Embedded Products Division at Oracle.
``By working closely with Phone.com we can offer wireless carriers the unique benefits of an
easy-to-use UP.Browser interface while leveraging all the performance, scalability and reliability
of a solution built with Oracle.'
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and
the world's second largest software company. With annual revenues of more than $9.1 billion,
the company offers its database, application server, tools and application products, along with
related consulting, education and support services, in more than 145 countries around the world.
For more information about Oracle, please call 650-506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web
address is (URL) oracle.com.
About Phone.com
Phone.com, Inc. is a leading provider of software and services that enable the delivery of
Internet-based services to mass-market wireless telephones. Using its software, wireless
subscribers have access to Internet- and corporate intranet-based services, including Email,
news, stocks, weather, travel and sports. In addition, subscribers have access via their wireless
telephones to network operators' intranet-based telephone services, which may include
over-the-air activation, call management, billing history information, pricing plan subscription and
voice message management. Phone.com is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California and has
regional offices in London and Tokyo. Visit phone.com for more information.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release
are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties
include, but are not limited to, Phone.com's limited operating history, potential fluctuations in
Phone.com's operating results, uncertainties related to the Phone.com's long sales cycle and
reliance on a small number of customers, Phone.com's dependence on the acceptance of its
products by network operators and wireless subscribers, Phone.com's ability to adequately
address the rapidly-evolving market for delivery of Internet-based services through wireless
telephones, the need to achieve widespread integration of Phone.com's browser in wireless
telephones, competition from companies with substantially greater financial, technical, marketing
and distribution resources and the ability of Phone.com to manage a complex set of engineering,
marketing and distribution relationships. Further information regarding these and other risks is
included in Phone.com's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999
and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
NOTE: Oracle is a registered trademark and Portal-to-Go is a trademark or registered
trademark of Oracle Corporation. Phone.com, the Phone.com logo and the family of terms
carrying the ``UP.' prefix are trademarks of Phone.com, Inc. Other names may be trademarks
of their respective owners.
SOURCE: Oracle Corporation |
