Surpassing over 100 competing vendors, Oracle placed in the winners' circles of eight categories, repeating last year's awards for best database product and a top Java innovator. Oracle's distinctions include the following:

* Best Enterprise Database Product: Oracle9i Database (Winner)

* Best Java Reporting Tool: Oracle9i Developer Suite--Oracle9i Discoverer tool (Winner)

* Best Wireless Java Application: Oracle9i Application Server--wireless technology (Second Place)

* Best XML Tool: Oracle9i Developer Suite--Oracle eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Developer Kit (Second Place)

* Best Java Application Server: Oracle9i Application Server (Third Place)

* Best Java Class Library: Oracle9i Developer Suite--Oracle9i JDeveloper with Oracle Business Components for Java (Third Place)

* Most Innovative Java Product: Oracle9i Application Server--Web caching technology (Fourth Place)

* Best Team Development Tool: Oracle9i Developer Suite--Oracle9i JDeveloper (Fourth Place)

Winners were chosen by Java Developer's Journal readers who voted on products from 100 vendors. Readers of this publication come from the front lines of the Java community, comprising key influencers from Fortune 500 companies that include CTOs and CIOs, system architects and engineers, high level programmers and developers, consultants and IT/IS development managers.

About Oracle9i Products

Oracle9i Database: Oracle9i Database provides efficient, reliable, secure object relational data management for such diverse applications as high volume on-line transaction processing (OLTP) environments, query-intensive data warehouses, and demanding Internet applications. Oracle9i Database provides the performance and functionality to meet the availability and scalability requirements of today's mission-critical applications for the enterprise.

Oracle9i Application Server: Oracle solves the IT challenge of integrating fragmented middleware products to run an e-business by providing one product that can replace more than 10 separate point products from other vendors. Oracle9i Application Server features full J2EE support, built-in enterprise portal software, high-speed caching, business intelligence, rapid application development, application and business integration, Web services and more, all in one package. Oracle's extensive investment in application server research and development has enabled the company to deliver a new lightweight J2EE engine and extended caching capabilities that allow companies to save on infrastructure costs by scaling with software instead of hardware.

Oracle9i Developer Suite: Oracle9i Developer Suite is a complete, integrated suite of development tools for rapidly developing transactional Internet applications and Web services using Java and XML. The suite radically simplifies the way developers build applications and dramatically increases development productivity by offering a comprehensive tool set that addresses every aspect of e-business application development and leverages all development skills and expertise. Supporting the latest Java and XML standards, Oracle9i Developer Suite includes Oracle's Internet application development tools--Oracle9i JDeveloper, Oracle9i Forms Developer, Oracle9i Designer and related development kits--along with Oracle's business intelligence tools--Oracle9i Reports Developer, Oracle9i Discoverer and Oracle9i Warehouse Builder.

About Oracle

Oracle Corporation provides the software that powers the Internet. For more information about Oracle, please call 650-506-7000.

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