Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2 for the Symbian OS, which powers nearly 60 million mobile phones in use by over 250 network operators.

Oracle's mobile database, coupled with Symbian OS, provides field employees with direct and secure access to essential company data. Together, with their partners, Oracle and Symbian are enabling the interoperability of mobile devices with mobile networks, applications and services.

Oracle Database Lite 10g makes it easier to develop mobile schemas, deliver high availability options and enable users to synchronise data seamlessly between their corporate database and mobile device at regular intervals. The mobile manager in Oracle Database Lite 10g also enables customers to administer and monitor their full mobile chain easily from a single, web-based console. Relying on the Oracle Grid Computing infrastructure, the mobile database provides ISVs with a secure and reliable technology architecture that enables increased performance and incremental scalability to support thousands of concurrent users.

"By choosing Symbian OS, Oracle is enabling millions of workers who rely on mobile technologies to do their jobs every day the opportunity to increase productivity," said Marie-Anne Neimat, vice president of development, Oracle. "Working together with our partners from handset manufacturers and ISVs to global SIs, mobile workers have access to the same high quality, secure applications whether in the office or on the road."

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Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2