Oracle brings forth E-Business Suite Online Any place

Redwood Shores

Oracle Software India Ltd., a subsidiary of Oracle
Corporation, announced a new delivery option in its comprehensive ‘software as
a service’ business model-Oracle E-Business Suite Online Any Place. This
allows E-Business Suite Online service customers the ability to choose where
they want to house their server hardware, while still realizing the benefits of
an online application service. Until today, customers who have chosen the Oracle
E-Business Suite delivered as an online service, had to buy hardware management
services from Oracle as part of the package. Now they can choose to maintain
their own server and house it either at their site or at another qualified
location of their choice. The rest of the software administration and support is
provided by Oracle.

As infrastructure providers for this new offering, Compaq is
making available the e-business suite certified configuration for the Oracle;s
product. These certified configurations include the E-Business Suite and
underlying technology from Oracle pre-installed and pre-tested on pre-configured
servers required to run this. Customers can now also buy the entire suite in a
standard package, utilizing pre-tested with reliable software and hardware
certified configurations, and can leverage this industry-leading model which
sets new standards for rapid deployment and ROI on software implementation.

With the addition of this, Oracle customers now have three
options for deploying the Oracle E-Business Suite:

• Using the traditional model of managing the IT systems
  in-house

• With housing and managing a complete online delivered
  service

• With the customer in charge of hardware management and
  maintenance, with Oracle providing the application, database and system
  management and support remotely.

"We have seen tremendous response to our E-Business
Suite Online service offering and are now giving customers a new option,"
said Timothy Chou, President, Oracle.com. "There are still a lot of
companies that want to have their data sit on a server close to them. Through
our hardware partners, we are able to offer standard certified configurations of
our software that allow us to manage the software remotely. This way, the
customer has what they want-a server to hug-and they can leave the
administration of the software to Oracle."