Independent Analyst Firm Ranks Oracle as Number 1 in Application Deployment Software Market in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan)

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 8, 2008 —
· Oracle announced that leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC has ranked Oracle1 as the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) market share leader with 30.5 percent market share in the application deployment software market based on total software revenue for 2007.2
· According to the report, Oracle was the fastest-growing application deployment software vendor among the top five vendors in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) in 2007, posting 38.1 percent revenue growth from 2006 to 2007.
· Oracle grew faster than the market as a whole.
· According to IDC, the application deployment software market grew 23.7 percent in 2007 in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) to approximately $665.5 million.
· In ASEAN3, Oracle is the market share leader with 32.9 percent market share in the application deployment software market based on total software revenue for 2007, growing faster than the market and gaining more than three points of revenue share.

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