GiDEL Selects Siebel CRM On Demand to Enable Dramatic Growth

Provider of Leading-Edge Development Platforms Chooses Top Hosted CRM Solution for Sales Effectiveness

SAN MATEO, Calif.-October 12, 2005 - Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: SEBL), a leading provider of customer-facing solutions, today announced that GiDEL, a leading provider of powerful development tools and universal field programmable gate array (FPGA) platforms, chose Siebel CRM On Demand over Salesforce.com for its hosted CRM solution. Siebel CRM On Demand will allow GiDEL, headquartered in Israel and the U.S., to manage its dramatic growth on a global basis.

GiDEL was founded in 1993 as a high-end system development and integration company. With its project-level approach, GiDEL has created powerful and advanced tools for high-performance system development. GiDEL's expertise in system-level integration and innovative development methodologies has proven valuable to companies that need to verify Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs and build system-level boards.

"At GiDEL, we treat our customers as partners, and we use our vast experience at the project level and FPGA design level to focus on the success of their projects," said Hai Migdal, Senior Sales Engineer, GiDEL. "Our development methodology offers important efficiencies for project teams and as a result, we have experienced substantial growth and a need to better manage it."

"To help us manage our sales efforts and every touchpoint of customer interaction, we chose Siebel CRM On Demand," added Mr. Migdal. "With its vast expertise in customer-facing solutions, we knew we could trust Oracle Corporation to deliver the business impact we were looking for in sales and marketing excellence. Throughout our implementation we have been pleasantly surprised by the world-class support and training that Oracle offers."

GiDEL chose Siebel CRM On Demand to support its sales forecasting, pipeline visibility, opportunity management, and sales analytics. As a global company, GiDEL employees also welcomed a familiar user interface to ease user adoption, gain access to important applications such as Microsoft Outlook, and handle a variety of languages and currency types. Consistent with its rapid growth, GiDEL was especially pleased with the rapid deployment, scalability, and security found in Oracle's hosted CRM offering.

About Siebel CRM On Demand

Siebel CRM On Demand is a hosted CRM offering delivered over the Web and accessible from an Internet browser at a fixed price per user per month. Customers can deploy Siebel CRM On Demand quickly, easily, and affordably without any up-front IT investments. Hosted by IBM, Siebel CRM On Demand delivers complete sales, marketing, and service functionality; built-in customer analytics; virtual call center technology; embedded best practices; and world-class hosting services and support. Siebel CRM On Demand is now available for purchase. For more information, visit www.crmondemand.com.

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