REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Aug. 15, 2005 -- Oracle today announced its participation at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) World Conference Summer 2005 at Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, Calif., August 14-19, 2005. Attendees can visit booth #500 to view live demonstrations of Oracle Business Intelligence 10 g as well as learn first-hand about deploying Oracle products to support their organizations' business intelligence (BI) initiatives. The following Oracle products will be showcased at TDWI:

* Oracle Discoverer -- query, reporting and analysis with dashboard features;

* Oracle Spreadsheet Add-In -- direct access to Oracle OLAP from within Microsoft Excel spreadsheets;

* Oracle Warehouse Builder -- robust ETL and data quality functionality;

* Oracle Business Intelligence Beans -- custom BI application development; and,

* Oracle Data Mining -- statistical analysis techniques used to discover new trends and patterns.

Oracle Business Intelligence 10g is a comprehensive, standalone product designed to address the entire spectrum of analytical requirements facing businesses including query, application development, reporting and analysis, data integration and management. The product extends Oracle's leadership in business analytics and furthers its strategy to reduce the cost and complexity of building and deploying BI solutions.

Delivering High Performing and Scalable Data Warehouses with Oracle Database 10g

With Oracle Database 10g Release 2, Oracle continues to provide customers with industry-leading capabilities that support the most demanding data warehousing and transaction processing requirements. As the leading database for production data warehousing, Oracle Database 10g provides a single, integrated database engine for scalable and high performing data warehousing implementations.

In the past 30 days, Oracle and its hardware partners have established three distinct world record benchmarks with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 in the 300 gigabyte (GB)(1), One Terabyte (TB)(2) and Three TB(3) TPC-H categories. For additional details on Oracle's world record TPC-H benchmark results, go to: http://www.oracle.com/solutions/performance_scalability/benchmark_results.html

About Oracle Business Intelligence 10g

Oracle Business Intelligence 10g is designed to reduce the cost and complexity associated with building and deploying BI solutions. It features award-winning BI tools from ad-hoc query, reporting and analysis to Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) to BI application development, and more, in a single, affordable and comprehensive package. With Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, customers can leverage existing BI infrastructures to extend intelligence to users enterprise-wide to support accurate business decisions and improve business performance.

For more information about Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, visit http://www.oracle.com/bi.

About Oracle Database 10g

The only database designed for grid computing, Oracle Database 10g delivers the highest 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 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/.

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As of August 12, 2005:

    Source: Transaction Processing Council (TPC), http://www.tpc.org

    (1) Dell PowerEdge 6800 server cluster, 11,742.8 QphH@300GB, Oracle
        Database 10g Release 2, $22/QphH@300GB, available January 8, 2006
         (price-performance record for 300GB Scale Factor)

    (2) HP Integrity Superdome Enterprise Server, 68,100.6 QphH@1000GB,
        $59/QphH@1000GB, Oracle Database 10g Release 2, available 1/18/06
        (performance world record for TPC-H 1000GB Scale Factor)

    (3) HP Integrity Superdome server, 71,847.8 QphH@3000GB, $56/QphH@3000GB,
        Oracle Database 10g Release 2, available 1/18/06 (performance world
        record for TPC-H 3000GB Scale Factor)

    For more information on TPC-H and TPC-C benchmarks, please visit
http://www.tpc.org.  TPC is a registered trademark by the Transaction
Processing Council.

Contacts: Eloy Ontiveros Daylan Burlison Oracle Corporation Zeno Group for Oracle (650) 607-6458 (415) 369-8116 eloy.ontiveros@oracle.com daylan.burlison@zenogroup.com

Eloy Ontiveros                
Oracle Corporation            
(650) 607-6458                               eloy.ontiveros@oracle.com