Symbian teams with Oracle to give mobile users access to mission-critical data through Oracle Database Lite

CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment, September 28, 2005 – Symbian Ltd. today welcomed Oracle’s announcement that Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2 will support Symbian OS™, the global open industry standard operating system installed on almost 40 million data-enabled mobile phones worldwide. 

In an Oracle press release issued yesterday (Oracle Press Release), Oracle said that its Database Lite 10g Release 2 is the first database to extend the power of grid computing to the mobile workforce. Together, Symbian and Oracle will be able to extend software applications such as customer relationship management and sales force automation to the growing number of Symbian OS-based smartphones worldwide. As a result of the new partnership, smartphone users can take advantage of the many benefits of Oracle’s grid technology, including continuous data and application availability improving business user productivity both in and away from the office.

Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2 for Symbian OS is already working on NTT’s DoCoMo Business FOMA environment, Motorola’s M1000 and all phones based on Nokia’s Developer platforms, Series 60 and Series 80 such as the Nokia 9300 and Nokia 6630. 

Oracle
In the Oracle press release, Oracle’s senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Andrew Mendelsohn said, "Handset vendors and carriers are always looking for new services to maintain and increase revenue generating opportunities. Oracle Database Lite provides the perfect high performance, reliable and secure database to manage handset data to support these new services."    

Symbian
In the release Symbian’s vice president of US operations, Jerry Panagrossi said, "Symbian's partnership with Oracle is delivering on the promise of workforce mobile enablement - improving business user productivity both in, and away, from the office. The combination of Oracle's market leading mobile database technology with Symbian's industry leading mobile handset operating system, Symbian OS, assures that enterprise mobile workers will have access to all of their mission-critical data when they need it."

For the full release visit: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2005_sep/092705_oracle_symbian_finalsite.html

About Symbian Ltd

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry.  In the first half of 2005, more than 14.5 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 200 network operators, taking the installed base of Symbian OS phones to more than 39 million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe (Cambridge, UK and Ronneby, Sweden (UIQ Technology AB), Israel and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo).

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