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Independent Software Vendors, System Integrators and Value Added Resellers are demonstrating broad industry support for Oracle(R) Application Server 10g, Oracle's complete and integrated Application Platform Suite. Leading Packaged Application and Infrastructure Software vendors continue to rapidly adopt, certify, and embed Oracle Application Server 10g. Together with its partners, Oracle provides a complete Application Platform Suite, making it easy for customers to exploit their investments in partner solutions. Oracle Application Server 10g provides a broad and integrated J2EE standards-based Application Infrastructure with a number of capabilities -- J2EE, Portals, Business Integration, Identity Management, Mobile and RFID, and Business Intelligence -- that are being rapidly leveraged by ISVs and SIs to deliver complete, pre-packaged solutions to customers. Oracle Application Server 10g is available on over 25 different operating systems, processor and hardware architectures. Packaged Application vendors certifying Oracle Application Server 10g can offer their customers the greatest choice of systems architecture. Oracle Application Server 10g also allows partners to embrace Oracle's Grid Computing Vision -- pooling low, cost industry-standard servers and storage to dynamically adapt to changing business requirements -- and increasing their revenue opportunities. Today more than 2,500 Packaged Application and Infrastructure Software vendors provide pre-integrated solutions that dramatically reduce costs and speed return on investment for customers. "We share a common goal with our partners to provide solutions that are capable of easily integrating legacy systems with newer technologies, such as Grid Computing and Web services," said Thomas Kurian, senior vice-president, Oracle Server Technologies. "Our partners are exploiting Oracle Application Server 10g to provide out-of-the-box solutions that meet a broad variety of our customers' business needs. Partners recognize Application Server 10g as the industry's best Application Platform Suite -- this is why we are seeing such rapid adoption of our platform." Partners Propel Oracle Application Server 10g Solutions A broad spectrum of partners across a wide range of industries have selected Oracle Application Server 10g to deliver tailored solutions that meet the needs of their customers. 170 systems, Avolent, Agile Software Corporation, Applied Biosytems, Bio-Key, BMC Software, Cardonet, Computer Associates, Courion Corporation, EMC, Environmax, Fair Isaac, Forum Systems, FullTilt Solutions, Hyperion, Indus, Ingrian, Layer 7 Technologies, M-Tech Information Technology, Netegrity, NetScaler Inc, Oblix, RadiantLogic, Radware, Retek Inc., RSA Security, STG International, Synoran, Tomax, UGS and Vertex Inc. are among a few of the vendors building solutions with Oracle Application Server 10g. "With Oracle Application Server 10g, we have seen significant performance improvements and better scalability," says Chris Wong, EVP and Chief Product Officer of Agile Software Corporation. "Oracle Application Server 10g provides a commercially compelling integrated solution to our mutual customers." "Oracle Application Server 10g provides industry leading scalability and performance for running Retek retail applications," said Duncan Angrove, Chief Strategy Officer of Retek Inc. "Oracle's commitment to standards-based computing made the technology port to the Oracle Application Server 10g platform very simple and straight-forward," said Tom Hetterscheidt, vice president of Product Management of Synoran. "This improves the time-to-market for our enterprise integration and digital payment solutions." "Oracle Application Server 10g is clearly gaining traction in the market as a flexible platform for deploying enterprise-class applications," states Raj Kanaya, vice president of product strategy and alliances of NetScaler. "Netscaler is pleased to team with Oracle to provide this fine-tuned, accelerated network on which the multitude of third party applications will run -- fast and secure." "Oracle Application Server 10g's RFID and sensor based data management capabilities were a welcome addition," said Larry Adamson, CTO and General Manager of EnvironMax, Inc. "Since moving our chemical and hazardous waste product to 10g, we have been at the forefront of developing a new product extension for homeland security and emergency response based on RFID tags. Oracle's technical support not only made this project achievable for our small company, but also enabled us to be first-to-market with the latest technology and a solution essential to the nation." "BIO-key is an integrated solution for Oracle 9i and 10g platforms. This integration allows Oracle customers to create unique user IDs linked to fingerprints to help eliminate fraud while maintaining high levels of user confidence and ease of administration," said Mike DePasquale, CEO of BIO-key International Inc. "Partnering with Oracle, FullTilt provides our customers with the best Product Information Management (PIM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions so necessary for today's collaborative supply chain initiatives exploiting Global Data Synchronization (GDS) and RFID. Oracle's complete Application Platform Suite infrastructure and BPM solutions using WebServices and SOAs assure that our customers best leverage their existing IT investments in order to gain a competitive advantage," said Bob Moyer, President FullTilt Solutions Inc.