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Oracle Corp. announced significant customer wins signed during the second quarter of its fiscal year 2004, the results of which were announced today. Customers continue to choose Oracle 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 more 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 growing number of customers that have chosen Oracle Outsourcing include Amerinet, Exclusive Resorts, TelCove and Yuma County (AZ). "We were looking to take the path of least risk, and Oracle Outsourcing made that possible for us," said Bruce Ruberg, corporate controller at Aspect. "Applications maintenance is not our core competency, but Oracle is very good at managing their own applications. With Oracle Outsourcing we expect to see improved efficiency and performance, and increased ROI due to streamlined maintenance costs." Oracle E-Business Suite The Oracle E-Business Suite is a complete set of business applications that enables efficient management of all core business functions, such as customer interactions, financial management, human resources and supply chain management. Oracle's open architecture 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 second quarter include: Air Force Materiel Command, Atari, British Telecom (UK), Cyprus Telecommunication Authority (Cyprus), the United States Department of Transportation, Egypt Aluminum Co. (Egypt), Hallmark Cards Incorporated, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (Greece), Hospital Creteil-Montreuil (France), IHOP Corp., Integra LifeSciences Corporation, KPMG (Belgium), Kronos Incorporated, Los Alamos National Laboratory, lowermybills.com, Manitowoc Foodservice Group, Ministry of Finance (China), The Siemon Company, Saudi Telecom Co. (Saudi Arabia), Star Agro Handels GmbH (Austria), Transcuisinier (France), Welch's, and Yuma County (AZ). "The Oracle E-Business Suite is a key enabler of our ongoing efforts to provide our customers and business partners with industry-leading service," said Fareed Khan, senior vice president of SCM, CRM, and IT, US Gypsum Company. "We have already implemented Oracle financial and purchasing applications, and look forward to continued success in building the capabilities that link our operational excellence to our customers' experience." 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 remains an ideal choice for organizations that require 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-class collaboration 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 750 companies and organizations have purchased Oracle Collaboration Suite since it was made available in September 2002. Organizations around the world that purchased Oracle Database and/or Oracle Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite during Q2 include: Bundesministerium der Finanzen (Germany), Cooper Industries, CompuCredit, Concord Communications, Corrections Corporation of America, Department of the Navy Chief Information Office (DONCIO), US Department of Transportation, eBay, Fannie Mae, First Trust, Fritz Egger GmbH (Germany), HEB Grocery Company, Macomb County (MI), POSCO (South Korea), NetApp, Purdue University, Qsent, Reliance Infocomm Private Ltd. (India), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Royal Thai Air Force (Thailand), State of Oregon, TETRA Tech, Inc., The University of British Columbia, and Yellow Pages Group, Co. "As Corrections Corporation of America was developing our current strategic technology plan, we decided to adopt a platform approach which included selection of a standard database architecture. During our selection process, we looked at all industry-leading database products, ultimately selecting Oracle as our standard database. Our decision to invest in Oracle was based on its ability to scale to meet our growing transactional needs and seamlessly integrate transactional data into our business intelligence strategy," said John Pfeiffer, vice president of technology and chief information officer, Corrections Corporation of America. "The complete Oracle technology stack also enabled our thin-client strategy with a fully integrated applications server in Oracle9i Application Server. Oracle Real Application Cluster will enable a similarly integrated approach to availability for our mission-critical business applications. Simply put, Oracle offered the scale we needed with a broad and fully integrated toolset."