Industry Leaders Partner With Oracle to Support First True Enterprise-Wide Content Management Solution

Industry Leaders Partner With Oracle to Support First True
Enterprise-Wide Content Management Solution
Partnerships Provide Customers With Additional Integration Support and
Content-Enabled Applications for Oracle(R) Files 10g 


ORACLE(R) OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle
(NASDAQ:ORCL) today announced evidence of strong support for its content
management offering through partnerships with leading technology vendors that
leverage the capabilities of Oracle(R) Files 10g.  Industry leaders that will
provide enhanced functionality for Oracle Files 10g, the first content
management solution developed for true enterprise-wide deployment, include
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE), Arbortext, Captiva Software (NASDAQ:CPTV), Kofax, netGuru
(NASDAQ:NGRU), Network Appliance (NASDAQ:NTAP), Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:SUNW), Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) and TMSSequoia.  Together with these and
other partners, Oracle will provide complementary content management
capabilities including storage that can help companies with regulatory
compliance, document capture, image viewing and annotation, as well as
additional document control and security.

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Industry analysts agree that enterprise-wide content management is a growing
need for businesses, which must manage ever-expanding content volume while
meeting increasingly strict content-related government regulations. Industry
analyst firm IDC estimates the overall content management market will increase
to more than $4.5 billion in 2008.  Oracle and its partners plan to capitalize
on the growing need for secure, scalable and affordable technology that helps
manage the entire content lifecycle.

"The combination of Oracle Files 10g and Network Appliance SnapLock(TM) gives
our customers a powerful yet simple solution to help meet regulatory, IT and
business challenges," said Patrick Rogers, vice president, Solutions and
Alliance Marketing, Network Appliance.  "Customers can benefit from the
integration between a comprehensive compliance storage solution and a
cost-effective content management offering."

Oracle Files 10g, available on its own or as part of Oracle Collaboration Suite
10g, was developed with the average business user in mind to help increase
productivity by delivering content management tools where and when they are
needed.  Built on the Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server, Oracle
Files 10g provides outstanding scalability, security and reliability. In
addition, the offering incorporates advanced records management capabilities
that can facilitate regulatory compliance and help reduce the risk associated
with information discovery.

"As Oracle extends content management across the enterprise, customers require
more advanced and scalable input management capabilities," said Reynolds C.
Bish, president and chief executive officer, Captiva Software. "Our
InputAccel(TM) offering provides organizations using Oracle Files 10g with an
open document capture solution that can be tailored easily to meet specific
business requirements."

"Oracle successfully has developed partnerships with key providers that will
enable customers to reap immediate business benefits with Oracle Files 10g,"
said Greg Doherty, vice president, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle Corp. 
"The strength of the companies involved highlights the market opportunity for
Oracle Files 10g, and their offerings can help customers achieve a greater
return on their investment."

About Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is the first enterprise class collaboration
product built on the right architecture; Oracle Database 10g and Oracle
Application Server 10g. The result is a solution that is secure, reliable,
highly scalable and enables organizations to drive down total cost of
ownership. It is built on service-oriented architecture that allows
collaboration to become a seamless part of your application infrastructure,
helping drive higher efficiencies and levels of productivity. Oracle
Collaboration Suite 10g is the foundation for the collaboration-enabled
enterprise.

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