“Oracle Corp., the number one choice for e-business, today
announced that with the immediate availability of Oracle
Application Server 4.0.8., it is also launching a sales promotion
aimed at former NetDynamics, Netscape and Forte application server
customers. This promotion is designed to give businesses a low-risk
vehicle to upgrade their application servers in order to leverage
the new Business Components for Java development and deployment
framework now available with Oracle Application Server (see related
release). With this promotion, Oracle will offer up to a 25 percent
discount toward the purchase of Oracle Application Server 4.0.8 to
customers who currently hold application server license contracts
from either NetDynamics, Netscape or Forte. This promotion is
inspired by recent demand for the Oracle Application Server on
Oracle Technology Network (OTN), the world’s fastest growing
Internet Developer community. In recent months Oracle
Application Server has consistently been one of the most popular
products on OTN, amassing some 64,000 downloads in the past six
months alone. Of those, 42,000 have been for the Linux operating
system. This promotion will be available through Oracle’s
online store at http://oraclestore.oracle.com or from any Oracle
sales representative.”
“Unlike the competition, Oracle has been developing its
application server under one code base for over five years. This
consistency helps reduce customer deployment frustrations and
risk,” said Jeremy Burton, vice president Oracle Internet Platform
marketing. “This promotion is designed to help NetDynamics,
Netscape and Forte customers leave those frustrations behind and
defray some of the costs in the process.”