Oracle today announced that Oracle Application Server 10g has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2005 Gartner Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant. Gartner defines this category of vendors as those who deliver multi-modal transaction processing -- which is the classic online transaction processing (OLTP) extended to support service orientation, agility of deployment and change, productivity, and integration with external applications and events. According to Gartner, Leaders are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. "We believe our placement in the Leaders Quadrant recognizes Oracle's continued commitment to this market and to providing our world-class customer base with an integrated, open application server platform," said Steven G. Harris, vice president, Java Platform Group, Oracle. "Since the introduction of Oracle Application Server, Oracle has led the market in delivering the industry's most important technical innovations in the areas of mission-critical Quality of Service, grid computing, service-oriented architecture and event driven computing." This influential report evaluates each vendor according to its strategic direction, completeness of vision and ability to execute. The Magic Quadrant includes vendors who have the ability to deliver a service-oriented architecture, event-driven software architecture; support of enterprise service bus; advanced Web Services interoperability; multiple platform coverage; heterogeneous interoperability and standards compliance; and enterprise-level quality of service. Oracle Application Server 10g is an integrated, standards-based application platform suite that enables organizations of all sizes to be more responsive to changing business requirements. Oracle Application Server 10g features full support for J2EE and grid computing, built-in enterprise portal software, high-speed caching, business intelligence, rapid application development, application and business integration, wireless capabilities, Web services and more, all in one package. Because Oracle Application Server 10g is optimized for enterprise grid computing, it enables customers to realize better availability of their IT systems and lower hardware and administration costs.