Oracle Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in All Three of the Latest Magic Quadrants...

Oracle Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in All Three of the Latest Magic
Quadrants for Application Infrastructure

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

News Facts
-- With more than 85,000 middleware customers, Oracle is positioned in
the
Leaders Quadrant in each of the three new Gartner Magic Quadrants
focused on application infrastructure. The Magic Quadrants include:
Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects; New
Systematic SOA Application Projects; and Application Infrastructure
for
Back-End Application Integration Projects.
-- Gartner defines application infrastructure as the technology that
underlies and enables development, deployment and execution of
business
applications. Other than the design and development tools -- this
technology is also often referred to as "middleware."(i)
-- Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market
segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to
execute on that vision.

Leaders Quadrant in "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New
Systematic SOA Application Projects"
-- Oracle delivers with Oracle Fusion Middleware a best-in-class Business
Process Execution Language (BPEL) engine, SOA Suite, metadata
repository
and business process management capabilities that make it easier for
organizations to create SOAs.
-- Gartner states in the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure
for
New Systematic SOA Application Projects that "New development of
service-oriented business applications requires a complex collection
of
capabilities in runtime-enabling technologies and development tools.
We
examine the ability of leading application infrastructure vendors to
provide complete end-to-end support for such projects."(ii)
-- According to Gartner, those in the Leaders Quadrant in this Magic
Quadrant "combine insightful understanding of the realities of the
market, a reliable record, the ability to influence the market's
direction, the capability to attract and keep a following, and the
capacity to lead. A leader has the proven ability to deliver on its
vision, and to support its customers through periods of stability, as
well as periods of change. Leaders control most of the market's
business activity, and are the primary influencers of market
evolution."(iii)

Leaders Quadrant in "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA
Composite Application Projects"
-- Oracle provides organizations comprehensive business process
management,
SOA, integration and development tools that support heterogeneous
environments
-- Gartner states in the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure
for
SOA Composite Application Projects that "this research aims at
helping organizations select a comprehensive end-to-end application
infrastructure to support composite application projects in the
context
of SOA and other initiatives."(iv)
-- According to Gartner, "Leaders in this market are vendors with a
proven and comprehensive composite-application-oriented product set, a
sizable installed base of reasonably happy clients that are using the
vendors' products to support front-end and back-end composite
applications from top to bottom (for example, from user experience
management to integration with established back-ends), an ample
installed base of applications or platform middleware to which they
can
cross-sell their composite-application-oriented products, and a
demonstrated ability to anticipate technology and market trends by
extending their offerings with composite-application-enabling
technology."(v)

Leaders Quadrant in "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for
Back-End Application Integration Projects"
-- The hot-pluggable architecture of Oracle Fusion Middleware's SOA
Suite, and the highly successful Oracle BPEL Process Manager and
Enterprise Service Bus, coupled with Oracle's comprehensive line of
adapters and pre-packaged integration applications for the Oracle
Application Integration Architecture enable organizations to more
easily
integrate their heterogeneous back-end applications.
-- Gartner states that the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application
Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects
"emphasizes product capabilities most relevant to projects that
have, as their primary objective, integration of the back-end data and
business logic of applications. These projects deliver increased
cohesion and unified access to resources of purchased packages;
enterprise legacy products; and applications that are new and
custom-designed from other relevant enterprises or that are provided
by
service providers."(vii)
-- According to Gartner, those in the Leaders Quadrant in the Gartner
Magic
Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application
Integration Projects "are vendors with a proven and comprehensive
integrated product set, as well as a sizeable installed base of
reasonably satisfied clients that extends internationally. They have
an
ample installed base of products to cross-sell their integration
solutions to, and have demonstrated their ability to anticipate
technology and market trends over the years by extending their
offerings
with composite, application-enabling technology. Leaders manifest
their
understanding of the problem space by providing innovative features,
and
by extending their integration technology to support initiatives, such
as SOA and BPM."(viii)

Supporting Quotes
-- "Oracle is number one in middleware and we believe Gartner's
Magic Quadrants further confirm our leadership in helping customers
build, manage and deploy business critical applications," said
Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware products.
"Customers in every industry, around the world rely on Oracle to
provide the infrastructure and technology components that help provide
maximum value from enterprise applications. Whether they are
implementing SOA, undertaking back-end integration between
applications
or creating composite applications, Oracle is helping organizations
maximize application development, create business and IT efficiencies,
accelerate innovation and increase competitive advantage."

Supporting Resources
-- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New
Systematic SOA Application Projects
-- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA
Composite
Application Projects
-- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End
Application Integration Projects
-- Oracle Fusion Middleware
-- Oracle Application Integration Architecture
-- Oracle Process Integration Packs
-- Oracle Foundation Packs
-- Oracle BPEL Process Manager
-- Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

About The Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with
permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace
at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how
certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in
the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended
solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action.
Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose.

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(i) "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic
SOA Application Projects," Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jess
Thompson, Kimihiko Iijima, Daniel Sholler, December 19, 2008.

(ii) "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic
SOA Application Projects," Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jess
Thompson, Kimihiko Iijima, Daniel Sholler, December 19, 2008.

(iii) "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic
SOA Application Projects," Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jess
Thompson, Kimihiko Iijima, Daniel Sholler, December 19, 2008.

(iv) "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite
Application Projects," Massimo Pezzini, Yefim V. Natis, Kimihiko Iijima,
Daniel Sholler, Jess Thompson, Dale Vecchio, December 19, 2008.

(v) "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite
Application Projects," Massimo Pezzini, Yefim V. Natis, Kimihiko Iijima,
Daniel Sholler, Jess Thompson, Dale Vecchio, December 19, 2008.

(vi) "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End
Application Integration Projects," Jess Thompson, Daniel Sholler,
Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Raffaella Favata,
Paolo Malinverno, December 19, 2008.

(vii) "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End
Application Integration Projects," Jess Thompson, Daniel Sholler,
Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Raffaella Favata,
Paolo Malinverno, December 19, 2008.

(viii) "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End
Application Integration Projects," Jess Thompson, Daniel Sholler,
Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Raffaella Favata,
Paolo Malinverno, December 19, 2008.

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