07/02/2008

In a live webcast attended by partners and customers from around the world, Oracle President Charles Phillips and Oracle Fusion Middleware Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian outlined Oracle's middleware strategy, which combines the best products from BEA and Oracle Fusion Middleware and provides continuity and investment protection for both customer bases.

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Oracle plans to deliver increased functionality and capabilities across its broadened portfolio of products. The company unveiled plans for the strategic BEA and Oracle Fusion Middleware products -- including plans for Application Server, Tuxedo, BPM, WebCenter, SOA, Development Tools. (For more information and a complete product list please visit: www.oracle.com/goto/july1.)

Oracle also plans to preserve and expand the partner ecosystem -- including System Integrators, Independent Software Vendors, Value-Added Distributors and Value-Added Resellers -- to help ease the deployment of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

"The addition of BEA products to the Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite will accelerate innovation in our product offerings, and help our customers strategically implement middleware to more easily build, deploy, and manage applications in a secure environment," said Oracle President Charles Philips.

"The integration of the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack and the BEA product family combined with Oracle's standards-based platform offers the potential of a compelling foundation for building solutions to fit the complex and varied collaborations between people, software and machines in today's hospital and healthcare environments," said Rhett Alden, Senior Architect, GE Healthcare IT.

"Adopting SOA is a way to improve business performance. The combined Oracle & BEA middleware product direction provides greater opportunity to execute an effective SOA strategy and deployment that can help lower costs, increase agility and mitigate risks. HP will continue to leverage our consulting expertise in both Oracle and BEA products to help our joint customers accelerate SOA adoption and drive increased business value," said John McCain, senior vice president and general manager, Consulting and Integration, HP.