Customers, and their implementation partners, representing multiple industries across the globe submitted nominations for the Oracle Excellence Award. Each of the award recipients delivered exceptional business value through their use of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications. The top five winners will be featured in a cover story article in the January/February issue of Oracle's Profit magazine and will make an exclusive appearance on Appcast, Oracle's podcast series.

Recipients of the 2007 Oracle Excellence Award include: Apollo Group, Inc., BAE Systems Australia, Booz Allen Hamilton, City of Kent, Deutsche Bank, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, GE Healthcare, IKON Office Solutions, Ingersoll Rand, Logitech, Merrill Lynch, Mexicana de Aviación, Move, Inc., Northwestern University, Pepsi Bottling Group, projectiondesign, PTC, Qualcomm, Rackable Systems, Ross Stores, Inc., Secure Path Technology LLC, Syntax-Brillian, Temple-Inland and its subsidiary Forestar Real Estate Group, Tucson Electric Power, Universal Lighting, ViewSonic, VION Food Group and Wind River.

"The caliber of the nominees was quite remarkable and demonstrates the success organizations are having as a result of their use of Oracle Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware," said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president, Oracle Server Technologies. "We are pleased to recognize the recipients for their success in driving business value with their IT investments and also want to congratulate all of the Oracle partners who have helped our customers with these successful implementations."

"Our Applications Unlimited program was developed in part to help our customers more easily evolve their existing Oracle Applications investments to leverage Oracle's Service-Oriented Architecture, identity management, enterprise performance management and enterprise content management offerings," said Edward Abbo, senior vice president, Oracle Applications Development. "The Oracle Excellence Awards showcase the success of this program and the real-world benefits it is delivering to our customers around the world."

About Applications Unlimited
Launched in 2006, Oracle's "Applications Unlimited" program gives customers additional value by providing continued innovation for their current product lines. A key component of Applications Unlimited is delivering value to customers by allowing them to leverage next-generation technology within their current investments through integration and certification with Oracle's leading database and Oracle Fusion Middleware technology. The latest releases of Oracle Applications provide next-generation, role-based analytics, comprehensive application management, integration, search, master data management and XML-based reporting capabilities.

About Oracle Fusion Middleware: Leader in Middleware
The company's comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware products, Oracle Fusion Middleware software spans portals and process managers to application infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise content management and business intelligence. Oracle Fusion Middleware enables organizations to increase their capacity for growth and change; improve insight into business operations; mitigate risk and drive compliance; and connect with customers, partners, and workers. More than 50,000 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 market-leading independent software vendors, value-added resellers and system integrators. For additional information visit: http://www.oracle.com/middleware.

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