Spirent Communications Upgrades to Latest Version of Oracle's JD Edwards on Linux

Spirent Communications Upgrades to Latest Version of Oracle's JD
Edwards on Linux
Oracle Demonstrates Commitment to Support Customers With Upgrades to JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne 8.11 


REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., July 18  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Following through on
its commitment to support and help upgrade customers running JD Edwards
products, Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) today announced that Spirent Communications is
one of the first customers to go live on the newest release of JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne.

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Spirent Communications, a global test and measurement company, relied on Oracle
Support(R) and Deloitte Consulting LLP through its systems upgrade to JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne Version 8.11 on Linux.  The move to this new JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne release will help Spirent improve collaboration between divisions
and enable the company to stay closely connected to customers.

Spirent's upgrade from JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Xe to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Version 8.11 was underway when Oracle acquired PeopleSoft in early 2005. 
During the acquisition, Oracle Support remained focused on Spirent's upgrade
and contributed to the five-month upgrade project.

"Our decision to upgrade to the latest version of JD Edwards was fueled by
Oracle's assurance that they would support these products even longer than
PeopleSoft had originally agreed to," said Phil Walton, group director of
information technology at Spirent Communications.  "Oracle has followed through
on its commitment to deliver great service and support throughout the entire
upgrade process and Deloitte Consulting has truly been a reliable and
knowledgeable partner for us.  There is no doubt that we made the right
decision to continue with our JD Edwards upgrade."

Spirent also relied on its own Global Services to ensure its own global network
infrastructure could support the upgrade.

"Go-live success was not only dependent on the stability and support of the JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne application but also on the quality of our own global IT
infrastructure," said Walton.  "Based on the results of our network readiness
assessment professional services, we were able to fine-tune the network to
ensure that we met our service levels for a global application, and it gave us
the confidence that we would avoid any business disruption."

Spirent migrated its systems onto a Linux environment.  Since completing the
implementation, Spirent has found that the performance and scalability of its
Linux-based infrastructure and JD Edwards middleware solution has exceeded all
of the company's expectations.  Spirent is now equipped to handle real-time
data exchange between the JD Edwards applications and its third-party customer
relationship management (CRM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) products.

Based on this success of the upgrade, Spirent is now accelerating its global
deployment of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solution.

About Oracle

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About Spirent Communications

Spirent Communications (http://www.spirentcom.com/) is a global provider of
integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems. The company is
the largest business group of Spirent plc, traded on the London and New York
Stock Exchanges (LSE:SPT) (NYSE:SPM) (CUSIP number: 84856M209).
http://www.spirent.com/.

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respective owners.

Spirent, Spirent Communications and the Spirent logo are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Spirent plc. All other trademarks or registered
trademarks mentioned herein are held by their respective companies. All rights
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