Australia #1 in ADS in Australia - its official!

Further to my last two posts, we have just distributed a press release with the following data that offically establishes us as the leader in Application Deployment Software in Australia. Specifically the following data:

- Oracle announced that leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC has ranked Oracle as the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) market share leader with 30.5 percent market share in the application deployment software market based on total software revenue for 2007.

- According to the report, Oracle was the fastest-growing application deployment software vendor among the top five vendors Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) in 2007, posting 38.1 percent revenue growth from 2006 to 2007.

- Oracle grew faster than the market as a whole.

- According to IDC, the application deployment software market grew 23.7 percent in 2007 in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) to approximately $665.5 million.

- Major marketshare growth from Oracle (excluding BEA) from 10 to 15 per cent of the market and over 100 per cent growth in revenue (IDC)

- Oracle (excluding BEA) grew over 7 times faster than the nearest competitor (IDC)

- Oracle (+BEA) is #1 middleware vendor in Australia with 25% marketshare (Gartner)