According to Gartner, demand for horizontal portal products remains strong, driving most enterprise portal deployments. Gartner defines a portal as a "Web software infrastructure that provides access to, and interaction with, relevant information assets, knowledge assets and human assets by select targeted audiences, delivered in a highly personalized manner." Leaders in this category are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

"We believe Oracle Portal's position in the leaders quadrant signifies the tremendous success our standards-based family of middleware products is experiencing," said Rahul Patel, vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware. "Deployed as a complete platform or as individual components, Oracle Fusion Middleware delivers organizations with heterogeneous environments best-in-class middleware technologies they can use today to extend the value of their existing and future IT investments. Oracle Portal delivers a secure, personalized mechanism for all key stakeholders - employees, customers and partners – to access enterprise content, view business analytics, participate in business processes and collaborate."

As companies take advantage of the benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), Oracle's portal technology is a key enabler for leveraging data from heterogeneous systems for use in portals and composite applications. Oracle Portal 10g is a complete and integrated framework for developing, deploying and managing enterprise portals. It enables secure information access through role-based security, self-service customization, online collaboration and a unified view into key business processes. Built on open standards, Oracle Portal is a secure, scalable and highly available portal platform for organizations to conduct business with customers, partners and suppliers.

Gartner conducted a thorough evaluation of more than 14 vendors using the following criteria:
* The vendor must have at least $5 million in annual portal-related product and service revenue during the 2005 calendar year.

* The vendor must provide sales and support for the portal product in at least two of the following five geographic regions: North America; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; Japan; and the Asia/Pacific region.

* The vendor must have the ability to sell an enterprise portal for deployment in a variety of scenarios, including B2E, B2B and B2C.

* The vendor must provide portal functionality that meets all Generation 1 criteria, as defined in previously published Gartner materials.

The full Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2006 report can be found at the following URL - http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/infrastructure/index.html#fus

Industry Influencers Recognize the Innovation and Technology Leadership of Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Fusion Middleware is now used by more than 30,000 customers - representing more than 35 of the world's 50 largest companies and more than 750 of the BusinessWeek Global 1000. Industry analysts, editors, customers and readers of leading technology publications have recognized Oracle Fusion Middleware's technology leadership with several awards and honors. Recently, the Java developer community demonstrated strong support by awarding Oracle numerous Java Pro 2006 Reader's Choice awards including, "Best Mobile Development Tool" and "Best Java Optimization / Profiling Tool." Oracle's contributions to the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification were also recognized during the Java Pro awards ceremony at the 2006 JavaOne conference. Oracle Portal has been instrumental in designing and supporting standards in content integration (JSR170) and Portlet interoperability (JSR168 and WSRP) specifications. Additionally, leading industry publications CRN and Network Computing and Oracle user, Sierra Atlantic, recently lauded the technical capabilities of Oracle's SOA offering, which includes Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Oracle Enterprise Service Bus. Oracle Portal is increasingly deployed as a unified user interaction platform for SOA deployments.

About The Magic Quadrant
* Magic Quadrant Disclaimer
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 16, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

1 "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2006," David Gootzit, Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes, May 16, 2005

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