SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Oct. 12, 2009 (Marketwire) --

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/12/09 -- Oracle OpenWorld -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

News Facts

• Less than four months since its introduction, Oracle® Fusion Middleware 11g has been adopted by leading organizations worldwide.
• Today, more than 90,000 customers from nearly every industry and public sector are leveraging the industry's number 1 middleware suite to innovate, differentiate their organizations from the competition and respond to changes in their business in near real-time.
• Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g counts leading organizations such as Alcatel-Lucent; Barclays Global Investors; Carnegie Mellon University; China Mobile Communications Co., Ltd; Cuyahoga County of Ohio; Edmunds.com; Government of South Australia's Justice Technology Services; MedNet International; MICROS Systems, Inc.; NetApp; Office of Shared Services, Australia; Pickles Auctions; PT Indosat; Texas A&M University; University of Adelaide and University of Wisconsin-Madison, among others, as customers.
• Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a modern application infrastructure that significantly improves the agility and intelligence of business applications while enabling organizations to exploit new hardware and software architectures for efficient IT execution and cost savings.
• Over the past 24 months, more than 20 thousand partners across all geographies have participated in Oracle's partner training and enablement programs.

Supporting Quotes

• "To provide customers with a next-generation experience along with the goal of seamless collaboration between customers, their peers and SME's at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Products Group, we chose Oracle WebCenter Suite, Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite and Oracle SOA Suite components. This integrated stack gives us one unified, content-centric collaborative environment across the enterprise for partners and customers," said Saeed Hosseiniyar, CIO, Alcatel-Lucent - Enterprise Products Group.
• "Alibris has a long-standing strategic relationship with Oracle. It's clear that Oracle is committed to delivering on the promise of Oracle Fusion Middleware with the release of the new 11g version," said Liz Derr, Chief Operating Officer, Alibris, Inc. "Oracle WebLogic Server powers our retail business.