"In my opinion, Oracle's position in the leaders quadrant recognizes Oracle's strength in data warehousing," said Willie Hardie, vice president of Database Product Marketing, Oracle. "Oracle is committed to providing customers a robust platform to efficiently develop and deploy systems that can easily scale out at low cost, from small data marts to multi-terabyte data warehouses."

Oracle Database(r) 11g is a comprehensive database foundation for data warehousing and business intelligence that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, deeply-integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data-quality capabilities to support customers' most demanding ad hoc query, reporting, online analytics and data mining requirements. Oracle data warehouse products consist of Oracle Database 11g, with Oracle Partitioning, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Data Mining, Oracle OLAP, and Oracle Warehouse Builder Data Quality, Enterprise ETL, and Connectors. For more information on Oracle Data Warehouse solutions, go to:
http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/dw_home.html .

About Oracle Database 11g
Oracle Database is the only database designed for grid computing. With more than 400 new features, 36,000 person-months of development, and 15 million test hours, Oracle Database 11g is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever; enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly. Oracle Database 11g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers.

About The Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 2007 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.

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(1) Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2007" by Donald Feinberg and Mark A. Beyer, Oct. 10, 2007.