Oracle is #1 in Middleware

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is the #1 application infrastructure foundation - with customer growth and performance that are unrivaled by any competitor, including IBM.

Customers are choosing Oracle Fusion Middleware to give their organizations a modern application infrastructure for a variety of initiatives including simplified development, SOA, cloud computing, business process transformation, Service-oriented Security, enhanced collaboration, and IT governance. With this standards-driven middleware foundation, customers get more value out of their IT investments by seamlessly extending their existing applications and future proofing their business transformation initiatives.

Unique Advantages
Oracle Fusion Middleware is the only middleware available from any vendor that offers the these unique design principles:

• Complete—Work with a single, strategic partner for all middleware requirements
• Integrated—Certified integrations with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle Applications provide confidence and reduce costs
• Hot-Pluggable—Enhance your existing infrastructure and applications with interoperability that goes beyond industry standards
• Best-of-Breed—Choose from best-of-breed offerings across every product line

Number One with Customers and Partners
Oracle Fusion Middleware is the world's fastest growing middleware, with over 90,000 customers in 2009, including 29 of the 30 Dow Jones companies and 98 of the Fortune 100. The strong growth of Oracle Fusion Middleware has made it #1 across the top 20 industry verticals including:
#1 in Retail, with 37 of the top 40 retailers
#1 in Communications, with 20 of the top 20 providers
#1 in Healthcare, with 20 of the top 20 providers
#1 in Aero and Defense, with 12 of the top 12 companies
#1 in High Technology, with 37 of the top 40 companies

Hear what Verizon, Qualcomm and other customers have to say about their middleware implementations.

Performance and Leadership
At the foundation of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family is the world's fastest application server, Oracle Weblogic Server 11g, with independent tests showing it far out pacing all competitors, including IBM, in operations per second.

Analysts continue to survey the middleware landscape and show Oracle as a leader in a wide array of middleware categories, including:

• Application Infrastructure
• Enterprise Application Servers
• Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) - including Enterprise Service Bus and SOA Governance
• Business Process Management
• Horizontal Portals
• Enterprise Content Management - including Records Management and Web Content Management
• Business Intelligence Platforms
• Identity Management - including User Provisioning and Web Access Management