Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One Named One of the Best Midmarket Products of the Year by VARBusiness

August 24, 2006; 04:23 AM
Oracle announced that Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, was selected as one of the Best Midmarket Products of the Year by CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine.

"Our readers tell us that the middle market is one of the fastest-growing IT categories today," said VARBusiness Publisher Robert C. DeMarzo. "Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One is one that best meets that segment's needs."

Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One is streamlined, easy-to-use and designed specifically to meet the unique needs of small to mid-size businesses and departmental users. Priced to address the requirements of these organizations, it provides a pre-integrated Web Server and Web site development tools, Java development tools and an out-of-the-box customizable Portal application called "Instant Portal".

Using Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One, customers can build Internet Web Sites using popular Web Scripting languages such as PHP, PERL and Java Server Pages (JSP). They can also build e-Commerce applications to help grow their businesses on the Internet using a Java development tool that supports industry standards such as JSP, Servlets and Enterprise Java Beans. Finally, the Instant Portal enables users to publish content and share documents securely with colleagues, customers and partners without requiring professional developers. Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One addresses the needs of companies who want to start small, but also be adequately prepared for future growth in Oracle and non-Oracle technology environments.

"Small and medium businesses need high quality infrastructure software that is easy to implement and maintain while providing the flexibility and scalability required for growth," said Rick Schultz, vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle. "The VARBusiness 'Best Midmarket Products of the Year' award is further evidence that our small and medium business offering of Oracle Fusion Middleware meets the unique needs of these customers."

VARBusiness, the biweekly magazine that provides strategic insight to technology integrators, solicited input from information-technology (IT) vendors and solution providers to determine which products and services were best for midmarket customers - companies with between 100 and 999 employees. The roundup ranges from security and business software to VoIP and storage. Entries were considered and reviewed by VARBusiness editors who selected only 45 of the more than 350 nominated products.

About Oracle Fusion Middleware
The company's comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware products, Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to adopt and manage service-oriented architectures in heterogeneous computing environments. More than 31,000 customers now use Oracle Fusion Middleware and include leading organizations in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care and Public Sector industries. Oracle Fusion Middleware is also supported by 9,000 partners, including leading independent software vendors, value added resellers and system integrators.

About VARBusiness Magazine
For the past 19 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the solution-provider community. VARBusiness provides unique strategic business and technology insight for solution providers through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. Additional information about VARBusiness products, events and services, is available on the magazine's Web site at www.varbusiness.com.

About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.