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March 27, 2008

Oracle Acquires Web Application Testing Software Assets from Empirix

Strengthens Oracle Enterprise Manager with Leading e-TEST suite Products

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The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any

• contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any

material, code, or functionality and should not be relied upon in making a purchasing decision. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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What We Are Announcing

• Oracle to acquire Web application testing software assets from

Empirix

• Expected to strengthen Oracle Enterprise Manager with application load

and functional testing technology

• Transaction is subject to certain closing conditions
• Empirix is a provider of Voice and Web application testing and

monitoring solutions

• Headquartered in Bedford, MA
• Provides e-TEST suite, a leading Web application testing solution
• Experienced team with deep domain expertise focused on Web

applications testing

• Empirix’s e-TEST suite is expected to enhance Oracle Enterprise

Manager

• Provides test management, functional testing and load testing required

for ensuring application quality and scalability

• Enhances systems management portfolio to provide comprehensive

application management life cycle solutions

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Strategic Importance to Oracle

• Application testing is becoming increasingly important as customers

need to deploy applications faster, at lower cost, and with higher quality

• f service
• Prevents costly application performance problems that impact production users
• Avoids unplanned outages of business-critical applications
• Automates and better manages the manual steps involved in applications testing
• The acquisition of Empirix’s e-TEST suite is expected to strengthen

Oracle’s application testing capabilities and enable Oracle to provide comprehensive application management life cycle solutions

• Combination with Oracle Real Application Testing will create a complete load testing

solution, with both synthetic and real load testing spanning web and database tiers

• Delivers a solution for the complete application management life cycle – from

development and testing to production deployment and performance management

• Oracle, as one of the world’s largest applications vendors, is well positioned to

provide an integrated and optimized testing solution for packaged applications

• Consistent with Oracle’s strategy for delivering cost-effective solutions

for managing applications that enable customers to adopt new technology with reduced risk

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Test Accelerators for Test Accelerators for Packaged Applications Packaged Applications Functional Testing Functional Testing Test Script Management Test Script Management End End-

• User Testing

User Testing with Synthetic Load with Synthetic Load End End-

• User Testing

User Testing with Production Load with Production Load Data Masking for Data Masking for Sharing Production Data Sharing Production Data Change Tracking Change Tracking and Synchronization and Synchronization Diagnostic & Tuning Diagnostic & Tuning Service Level Service Level Management Management Packaged Applications Packaged Applications Management Management Application Performance Application Performance Management Management Provisioning, Configuration Provisioning, Configuration Management Management Diagnostic and Tuning Diagnostic and Tuning

Combined Offering is Expected to Enable Oracle Enterprise Manager to Provide Comprehensive Application Management Life Cycle Solutions

Solutions for Solutions for Production Systems Production Systems Solutions for Solutions for Test / Development Test / Development Systems Systems

Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Enterprise Manager

Top Down Application Management Top Down Application Management

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• Empirix offers proven technology for Web application testing
• More than 685 customers use e-TEST suite in industries such as

Financial Services, Insurance, IT Services and Software, and Manufacturing

• Highly scalable, low-cost testing alternative with rapid time to value
• World-class team with deep domain expertise in application testing
• Empirix technology is most complementary to Oracle
• Industry leading, standards-based technology offerings that focus on

Web and SOA application development, consistent with Oracle’s strategy of enabling performance-optimized, hot pluggable applications

• Adds complementary capabilities to Oracle Real Application Testing and

Oracle Enterprise Manager, creating a comprehensive solution for functional regression and performance testing of infrastructure and application changes

• Underscores Oracle’s strategy of lowering total cost of ownership and

improving quality of service of applications built on Oracle technology

Why e-TEST suite?

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Empirix e-TEST suite

A powerful, integrated testing solution for ensuring application quality, performance and reliability

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Marquee Customers Across Key Industries

• More than 685 active e-TEST suite customers
• Strength in high-transaction verticals
• More than 400 already Oracle customers

Note: Active customer defined as a customer that has done business with Empirix in the last 24 months.

Financial Services Communications and Manufacturing IT Services and Software e-Commerce & Media

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Expected Customer and Partner Benefits

• e-TEST suite customers
• Increased R&D investment in e-TEST suite
• Highly complementary combination of product offerings delivering more

complete testing solution than available in the industry today

• Access to Oracle’s global support and services organizations
• Oracle customers
• Immediate value with application functional and load testing, and test

management

• Comprehensive application management life cycle solutions – from

development and test to production deployment and performance management

• Shorter deployment cycles for new applications
• Improved application quality of service for new and existing applications
• Oracle and e-TEST suite partners
• System Integrators will be able to work with a single vendor to address

customer needs for the complete application management life cycle

• Value-added resellers will gain expanded opportunities to provide solutions
• Partners will have access to Oracle’s worldwide resources and partner

ecosystem

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Business Challenges

• One of the largest rollouts of PeopleSoft Enterprise

Student Administration

• One of the largest college districts in the nation:
• ver 250,000 students annually and 11,500

employees across ten colleges

Solution

• e-TEST suite’s e-Load for load and performance

testing

• Empirix Consulting for test planning, execution and

tuning

Business Results

• All objectives achieved in three weeks.
• End-user experience with PeopleSoft application

was considered extremely robust

• Customer continues to expand usage of e-TEST

suite

Maricopa Community Colleges

e-TEST suite ensures successful rollout of large PeopleSoft Enterprise Student Administration implementation

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Business Challenges

• Ensure performance of complex, mission-critical,

highly visible online tax application, with massive usage peaks in the week before tax filing deadlines

• Additional testing throughout a complicated set of

customer-facing, CRM, HRM, and branch support applications

Solution

• e-TEST suite’s e-Load for load and performance

testing

• Empirix Consulting for test planning, execution and

tuning

Business Results

• Consistently strong application performance every

year during crucial tax seasons

• Outperformed industry peers who suffered major

application failures

H&R Block

“America’s most trusted online tax provider” relies on e-TEST to prepare for annual online filing season spike

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Business Challenges

• Comprehensive maker of electronics and electric

appliances with a worldwide customer base

• Customer objective was an end-user experience

that met high expectations of end users in Japan

• Required to verify application performance and

integrity under peak load for every individual customer / application deployment

Solution

• Company-wide effort to standardize on e-Load for

all Web load testing projects

• Used successfully for testing and tuning of over 100

delivered applications

Business Results

• Relative ease of training and deployment of e-Load

helped increase project efficiency and mobility of testing knowledge throughout company

• Increased credibility with customers through

accurate and consistent result reporting

Hitachi, Ltd.

Efficiency gains from e-Load allow leading technology firm to standardize test efforts and deliver Web applications that scale

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Clearly Different

Only Oracle and e-TEST suite can deliver ALL of the following:

• Integrated application and infrastructure testing &

applications management as part of a comprehensive application infrastructure An industry-leading offering for the complete application management life cycle – from test to deployment to active management Combined synthetic and real application workload testing capabilities

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Next Steps

• Public announcement
• March 27, 2008
• Communication with all stakeholders
• Press and analyst briefings
• Customer and partner briefings
• Complete transaction
• Subject to certain closing conditions
• More information can be found at
• www.oracle.com/Empirix