REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 9, 2007 -- Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced a record breaking TPC-H Three Terabyte (TB) benchmark for Oracle(R) Database 10g Release 2(1), strengthening the company's leadership in data warehouse performance. Holding records in three of the largest scale benchmarks: TPC-H 300 Gigabyte(2), TPC-H One TB(3) and TPC-H Three TB, Oracle continues to prove the superior performance of its database.

Running on a Sun Fire(TM) E25K server with UltraSPARC(R) IV+ processors and the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 achieved a record-breaking performance of 114,713.7 QphH@3000GB with a price- performance ratio of $36.68QphH@3000GB.

"This new three terabyte world record proves Oracle's commitment to deliver the best performing and most reliable database for any data warehousing environment," said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. "Customers can count on Oracle Database 10g to grow with the demands of their business."

As the leading database for production data warehousing, Oracle Database 10g is helping customers improve business performance by providing a scalable and fast data warehousing solution. This record-breaking benchmark is the reason customers choose Oracle on Sun systems. For more information on Oracle benchmark results please see: http://www.oracle.com/solutions/performance_scalability/benchmark_results.h tml

About Oracle Database 10g

The only database designed for grid computing, Oracle Database 10g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers. Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 10g's unique ability to manage data from traditional business information to XML documents and spatial/location information makes it the ideal choice to power online transaction processing, decision support and content management applications.

About TPC-H

TPC-H is a decision support benchmark consisting of a suite of business- oriented ad-hoc queries and concurrent data modifications. The performance metric is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@Size) and reflects multiple aspects of the capability of the system to process queries. More information is available at http://www.tpc.org.

About Oracle

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC).

As of April. 9, 2007: Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), http://www.tpc.org

(1) Sun Fire E25K Server, (72 processors/144 cores/144 threads), running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition, 114,713.7 QphH@3000GB, $36.68/QphH@3000GB, available 4/9/07. (World record TPC-H 3 TB result)

(2) HP Blade System ProLiant BL480c Cluster, (16 processors/32 cores/ 32 threads), running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition, 40,411 QphH@300GB, $18.67/QphH@300GB, available 12/18/06. (World record TPC-H 300GB result)

(3) HP Integrity Super Dome, (64 processors, 64 cores, 64 threads), running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition, 68,100 QphH@1000GB, $59.00/QphH@1000GB, available 1/18/06. (World record TPC-H 1TB result)