Oracle(R) Database 10g Standard Edition One Attracts Large Following of SMBs Looking for Secure, Reliable, Cost-Effective Database Software.

Wide Range of Small and Midsize Businesses Benefit From Powerful, Easy-to-Manage Database

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle today announced that small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are increasingly taking advantage of Oracle(R) Database 10g Standard Edition One (Oracle Standard Edition One), the company's full-featured, enterprise-class database priced and packaged to meet the specific needs of the SMB market. The American Osteopathic Information Association, enetrix and Great Dane Trailers are among many organizations worldwide benefiting from the power and value of Oracle Standard Edition One.

SMBs across diverse industries, running on their operating system of choice, including Linux and Windows, are taking advantage of Oracle Standard Edition One's fast installation and automated management, which helps significantly decrease the cost and complexity required to deploy and maintain database applications. Oracle Standard Edition One also includes Oracle Application Express, an intuitive browser-based development tool for developing and deploying secure Web applications. It's proving ideal for consolidating disparate desktop database and spreadsheet applications, and deploying them as Web-based database applications that are secured and managed as part of Oracle Standard Edition One.

American Osteopathic Information Association Increases Access to Information

Headquartered in Chicago, Ill., the American Osteopathic Information Association (AOIA) is a professional association supporting more than 56,000 osteopathic physicians (D.O.s) in the United States. The AOIA uses Oracle Standard Edition One as the back end for its Web portal, DO-Online.org, which was launched in June 2005. With Oracle technology, AOIA was able to increase the value of its Web site by providing members with secure access to important information and online communities based on criteria in each user's individual profile. Using Oracle Standard Edition One and Oracle Application Express on Linux, AOIA cost-effectively consolidated its applications into a single database, which reduced redundant administrative tasks.

"In making software decisions for our new portal, we evaluated several databases," said Michael J. Zarski, JD, executive director, AOIA. "We chose Oracle because of its stability and flexibility on the Linux platform. Plus, we save thousands of dollars each year in administrative costs, and it allows us to provide our users an up-to-date, easy to use information service."

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