REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) , the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced significant customer wins signed during the first quarter of its fiscal year 2004, the results of which were released today. Customers continue to choose Oracle(R) software over competitive offerings to thoroughly integrate and automate business systems, reduce total cost of ownership and create a single, global view of their business operations. Increasingly, customers are also selecting Oracle Outsourcing with its predictable cost model for implementation, license and ongoing support to accurately forecast IT spend. Customers can significantly reduce IT costs and decrease the time necessary to resolve software issues by outsourcing the management of Oracle software to Oracle. The latest in a growing number of customers that have chosen Oracle Outsourcing include: Central Plastics Company; Fairfield Language Technologies; Garden of Life; IT & Telestyrelsen; National IT and Telecommunications Agency; and NetworkCar. "We chose to outsource our Oracle E-Business Suite to Oracle Outsourcing because doing so offered us the best overall chance at success," said Robert Clinton, chief financial officer for Central Plastics Company. "We plan to fully implement all the modules that we believe are important to our business without having to stop and develop competencies in areas that are not part of our core business. Additionally, our needs may change in the future and Oracle Outsourcing has demonstrated to us that they are already staffed, trained and ready to deliver all the services we will likely ever need to support the future growth of our company." Oracle E-Business Suite The Oracle(R) E-Business Suite is a complete set of business applications that enables companies and organizations to efficiently manage all core business functions, such as customer interactions, financial management, human resources and supply chain management. A primary reason customers select the Oracle E-Business Suite is Oracle's open architecture, which allows customers to deploy applications as individual modules, business flows or an entire integrated suite. Customers that purchased the Oracle E-Business Suite during Oracle's Q1 include: Allseas Engineering BV; American Express; Angiotech Pharmaceuticals; Banco de Chile; BANKSYS; Barnes & Noble, Inc.; British Midland; Central Plastics Company; City of Memphis, Tenn.; Credit Suisse; Darden Restaurants, Inc.; DCN; Deseret Book; Desjardins Financial Corporation, Inc.; Devonport Management Limited; Dynamex; ECI; Egypt Commercial International Bank; Fairfield Language Technologies; Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.; Garden of Life; Genesis Microchip, Inc.; Hutchison CAT Wireless MultiMedia Limited; Infinity Resources; Jewish Agency for Israel; Lesaffre Yeast Corporation; Magnitogorsk Steel Mill (MMK); Mektec Manufacturing Corporation Thailand Limited; National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute; Northeastern State University (Okla.); Ocean Tankers Pte. Ltd.; Olymp; Orange France; QLogic; Rand Afrikaans University; Royal Jet; Socah; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Surface Mount Technologies; Teradyne; Tyco; and University of Melbourne. Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Okla., is among the customers that selected the Oracle E-Business Suite, as well as Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters (RAC), to manage its business with a single view of information. "The Oracle E-Business Suite will allow us to implement the individual modules necessary to meet the varied needs of our students, faculty and staff," said Michael Gibbons, director of computing and telecommunications for Northeastern State University. "With Oracle Database and RAC, we will have a high degree of availability and affordable scalability that comes from a single source of data. The total package provides us with a tightly integrated and state-of-the-art solution to manage our core business needs." Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite Oracle's technology products include the world's leading database -- Oracle Database -- Oracle Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite. Because Web sites, as well as transactional and decision support applications require a database and application server, the combination of Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server is an ideal choice for organizations that want the performance and cost saving benefits of a complete and integrated infrastructure. Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server enable businesses, organizations and governments around the world to run mission-critical business applications on a highly reliable, available and scalable foundation. Oracle Collaboration Suite is the first enterprise collaboration suite product that leverages a relational database and application server to offer a secure, reliable and scalable way to simplify business communications and consolidate information. The current release of Oracle Collaboration Suite provides users with access to integrated e-mail, voicemail, calendaring, file sharing, search and Web conferencing capabilities from popular desktop clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Web browsers and a wide range of wireless devices, including PDAs and cell phones. More than 500 companies and organizations have purchased Oracle Collaboration Suite since it was made available in September 2002. Customers around the world that purchased Oracle Database and/or Oracle Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite during Q1 include: ACC Bank; AIB Bank; Air France; BANKSYS; California Polytechnic State University; Citibank, N.A. Asia Pacific Processing Center; City of Memphis; City of Stockholm; COSMO Bulgaria Mobile; Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.; Deluxe; Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Ireland); Department of Highway, Ministry of Transportation Thailand; eLynx; Euro Bank; Federal Institution for Public Health (Belgium); FraPort AG Frankfurt Airport Service Worldwide; H3G Italy; Infinity Resources; Maggiore Holding; MedNautilus Greece; Ministry of the Interior (Thailand); National Archives Administration (Taiwan); National IT and Telecommunication Agency; Northeastern State University; Optimus Telecom; Red Bull GmbH; RGIS Inventory Specialists; Roskilde University Centre; StatementOne, Inc.; State Pension Fund Of Ukraine; STATS, Inc.; Stet Hellas Telecommunications; T-Systems International GmbH; University of Linkoping; and Vattenfall Europe Information Services GmbH. "STATS is very excited about its partnership with Oracle," said Alan Leib, president of STATS, Inc. "Oracle's Real Application Clusters technology on Linux provides the only highly-available and scalable database cluster technology on the market to support our next-generation sports databases and fantasy sports gaming architecture." "Oracle's technology has proven its scalability and high performance in support of our rapidly expanding ASP business for financial institutions," said Greg Pacholski, chief executive officer and president of StatementOne, Inc.