"Oracle is committed to providing our customers with the best application server on the market," said Rene Bonvanie, vice president of Oracle9i Marketing and Oracle Technology Network at Oracle Corp. "To date more than 10,000 companies have chosen Oracle9i Application Server to deliver the superior performance, reliability and security necessary to enable businesses to reduce implementation times and cut integration and management costs."

Oracle9i Application Server Demonstrates Market Momentum Worldwide As the first application server vendor to integrate portal, workflow, integration and other middleware features into a single product, Oracle9iAS has gained tremendous momentum worldwide in the past year with enterprise companies looking to leverage one product for the development, deployment and management of Java and Web services applications. Leading global enterprise companies benefiting from Oracle9i Application Server include: Bank of Ireland, Barclays Bank, Bisnis Indonesia, CalPERS, Comex, Citibank, CJ39 Shopping, David Jones, EPL Inc., Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kirloskar Oil Engines, National Institute of Education, OOCL/CargoSmart, Queensland University of Technology, POSCO, PT Perkasa, Royal Air Force, Recruit ASP, RedSherrif, Sains, SiS, ST Microelectronics, Tower Group, Unocal and XYBASE.

CargoSmart
CargoSmart's online ocean transportation management services offer shipping industry customers the ability to manage sailing schedules, bookings, bills of lading documentation, cargo tracking, E-mail notifications, customized reports, exception alerts, and collaboration features. A subsidiary company of Overseas Orient Container Lines, CargoSmart's e-logistics portal is currently accessed by more than 2,800 companies and maintains information for more than 1,200,000 shipments in its system.

"We deployed our industry-leading portal on Oracle9i Application Server," said Steve Siu, chief executive officer of CargoSmart. "The features in Oracle9i Application Server reduce our J2EE development time and help us integrate our application with the enterprise systems of multiple shipping carriers. Oracle9i Application Server also delivers the high availability, robust security and scalability that we need to support the needs of our more than 2,800 global customers."

Wireless Capabilities in Oracle9i Application Server
Customers and service providers in Asia Pacific are also turning to Oracle9i Application Server as a complete platform for the development, deployment, and management of their wireless applications. Looking to increase efficiency and drive new revenue, customers are using the mobile capabilities of Oracle9iAS, including PIM, email, voice, messaging, and location-based services. Customers taking advantage of this technology include China National Customers, Citibank, Samsung Korea and TransAsia Telecom Taiwan.

Citibank
A member of Citigroup, Citibank offers a wide array of banking, lending and investment services to individual consumers and businesses. Citibank's core e-commerce strategy is to provide services to customers anytime, anywhere, on any device.

"Mobile banking is an important component of our e-business strategy and we plan to progressively expand these services in Asia Pacific," said D.K. Sharma, regional director, E-Business Technology, Citibank Asia Pacific. "What we find most compelling about the wireless capabilities in Oracle9i Application Server is the openness and totality of the platform, its telco and device agnosticism and its ability to integrate with Citibank's various computing platforms."

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