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ORACLESALESONLINE.COM CONTINUES RAPID PACE OF CUSTOMER ADOPTION

6,000 Companies in More Than 100 Countries Currently Live on Oracle's Free Online Enterprise Sales Automation Service

 REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 25, 2000 - ( http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?383437 ) Oracle Corp., the largest
provider of software for e-business, today announced that more than 6,000 enterprises are now actively managing their sales
activities with OracleSalesOnline.com.  Launched in August, OracleSalesOnline.com is a free online service that provides
businesses with immediate access to Oracle's enterprise-strength sales automation product via the web.  Companies currently
using OracleSalesOnline.com include: Acrossworld Communications, Deloitte Consulting, Autodesk, Hospitality Enterprises
Inc., Infosys Corporation, KnightRidder.com, MartinAir, Omnifax, Oregon Steel Mills, Rational Software, Tata
Technologies (India), US Can, ViaSource, VTEL Communications and World Energy Exchange.

Oracle today also announced that it plans to integrate company information and search tools from Hoover's, Inc. within
OracleSalesOnline.com.  The new capabilities provided by Hoover's will allow sales professionals to quickly locate
continuously updated information critical to their job, including company descriptions, financials, key officers, top competitors
and news for thousands of public and private enterprises worldwide.

Global Sales Management
Global companies from all industries are realizing the benefits of leveraging an enterprise sales service that provides global
sales functionality, such as customer and pipeline management, calendaring and activity management, free of charge.  As the
only sales automation service that truly provides global, enterprise sales functionality, enterprises from over 100 countries
have selected OracleSalesOnline.com as their sales automation service.  New functionality, such as partner management and
integration to Microsoft Outlook and Palm devices will be available in coming weeks.
"OracleSalesOnLine.com enables GlobalCenter’s sales force to instantly and accurately manage and track potential sales
leads - serving prospective customer needs without delay," said Paul Pluschkell, Executive Vice President, Sales and
Product  Development, GlobalCenter Inc.

"OracleSalesonline.com is the perfect solution for a fast growing company like AcrossWorld Communications, Inc," said
Anil Srivastava, CEO, AcrossWorld Communications.  "We have an international sales team, and it hardly took us any time
to get everyone up and running, using the same data. We are amazed at the depth of functionality this solution provides us."
"In our evaluation process of several competing sales automation services, we were impressed with the level of service,
value,  and support offered by OracleSalesOnline.com," said Jack Pouchet, marketing director, Racal Instruments.  "We are
very pleased with the capabilities of the product, and with the responsiveness of Oracle to our needs.  
OracleSalesOnline.com is everything Oracle promised and much, much more."

"OracleSalesOnline.com represents a new phenomenon in the Internet age," said Mark Barrenechea, senior vice president,
Oracle CRM products division.  "Launched only 2 months ago, OracleSalesOnline.com has already been adopted by over
6,000 companies in over 100 countries, proving that global enterprises are validating the software as service model, and that
companies can no longer wait months and spend millions of dollars to automate core functionality such as sales automation."

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