(Logo: http://www. For more
information, contact Winter Corp., the leading provider of
Consolidated Transaction Tax Management applications, today announced
the release of SabrixReports, a new reporting module that addresses the
growing demand for real -time information and reporting for sales, use, and
value-added tax transactions.

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The company's
enterprise customers include BASF, Cisco, DTE Energy and York
International.

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, Oracle today
announced that Oracle powers the world's largest commercial database,
according to the Winter Corporation 2005 TopTen (TM) Program. Two of these Linux data warehouse systems cracked the TopTen All
Environments in the database size category.
"This year's Winter TopTen Program results clearly highlight Oracle
Database as the industry's only database that meets the full range of business
needs at the largest scale for both transaction processing and data
warehousing," said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server
Technologies, Oracle.
The complete results of the Winter TopTen Program are available at:
http://www.

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Oracle also powers nine of the world's top 10
UNIX online transaction processing (OLTP) database implementations and eight
of the world's top 10 Most Rows/Records for the OLTP UNIX categories. at info1@wintercorp.

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Winter Corporation 2005 TopTen Program Details

-- The world's largest commercial database runs Oracle Database
-- The world's largest commercial data warehouse runs Oracle Database
-- The world's largest commercial UNIX data warehouse runs Oracle Database
-- The world's largest commercial Linux data warehouse runs Oracle
Database
-- The world's largest scientific database runs Oracle Database
-- Oracle Database powers nine of the world's 10 largest UNIX OLTP systems
- - Oracle Database powers 100 percent of all Linux DSS and OLTP systems
measured in the Winter Corporation 2005 TopTen Program
-- Oracle customers represent 58 percent of the all validated participants
in the Winter Corporation 2005 TopTen Program

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Sabrix, SabrixReports, Consolidated Transaction Tax Management and
Transaction Services-Oriented Architecture are trademarks of Sabrix, Inc.

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About Winter Corporation
Winter Corporation is an independent consulting firm that helps customers
maximize the value of their large-scale data management systems.com.

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com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020718/ORCLLOGO )
Overall, Oracle customers run four of the world's top 10 largest decision
support system (DSS) databases."

Measuring the World's Largest Databases
The Winter TopTen Program identifies the world's leading database
implementations based on Database Size and Workload. Other names may be trademarks of their
respective owners. In addition, SabrixReports is built upon an open and
extensible platform that enables the creation and management of
company-specific transaction tax reports.

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"The contributions of Oracle and its customers in making the
TopTen Program successful are greatly appreciated.
SabrixReports will further enable us to achieve that goal by providing our
users a simple way to create a documented view of their tax system,
policies, and processes -- a critical requirement for managing and ensuring
compliance .

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For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at:
http://www. is the leading provider of Consolidated Transaction Tax
Management software and services that offers a consolidated approach to
transaction tax management, enabling tax and IT professionals to manage
sales and use tax, and VAT with consistent accuracy, control, and
efficiency.

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This year's survey marks the first time that the Linux operating system
had its own categories for DSS and OLTP. Oracle continues to
meet our customers' requirement to run their databases on any operating system
and hardware platform they choose. Any commercial
implementation with a minimum of one TB of data for on any platform was
eligible to participate in the program.wintercorp.

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Trademarks
Oracle , JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft are registered trademarks of Oracle
Corporation and/or its affiliates . Sabrix's Transaction Services-Oriented Architecture
provides a consistent way to determine, calculate and record any
transaction-related tax so enterprises can manage compliance and optimize
cash flows, for a single application or on a global scale.

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Sabrix, Inc. Founded in 2000, Sabrix is based in San Ramon, California,
with operations in Boston, Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and
London.

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Winter Corporation defines database
size as user data plus indices.oracle.

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2 TB) in the previous TopTen Program
(November 2003), which was also powered by Oracle.com.

PRESS RELEASE Tax Professionals Move Closer to 'Lights Out Tax Administration' With New Reporting Module From Sabrix

SabrixReports provides standard reports in three basic categories: utility
reports that create a documented view of the company's specific tax system
configurations; compliance reports that provide visibility into and an
audit trail of transaction details; and tax data reports that document a
company 's custom rules and rates for product taxability, taxing authorities
and product mapping. Also, consistent with our goal to empower tax and IT
professionals, tax professionals can simply download SabrixReports at no
cost, and no IT involvement is required to take advantage of this new
functionality.

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Oracle Powers 100 Terabyte Data Warehouse - the World's Largest Commercial Database

Winter Corporation Survey Results Show that Oracle is the Only Database Vendor
to Produce Leading Customer Results on Linux, UNIX and Windows Platforms

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. Three of the 10 largest UNIX data warehouses run Oracle.
"We are pleased to recognize the achievements of individuals and
enterprises that advance practices at or beyond the frontiers in large scale
data management systems ," said Richard Winter, president of Winter
Corporation.

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In all, Oracle customers made up 58 percent (102 of 175) of the
validated Winter TopTen Program participants. The new module provides users of the Sabrix
Application Suite a wide range of reporting capabilities enabling tax
professionals to efficiently access information and generate reports that
assist with internal corporate governance and tax compliance. For more information, go to www.

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The customer
database is a 100 terabyte (TB ) data warehouse, and is more than triple the
size of the world's largest database (29. The world 's largest Linux data
warehouse measures 24. "Our goal was to move closer and closer to
'lights out tax administration' with regard to SOX compliance.

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"We're also pleased at the strong showing of Linux in
this program.com, 781-642-0300, or
http://www. Reports can be viewed in the Web browser or exported in a variety
of formats, including HTML, PDF, CSV, and Microsoft Excel, all to meet the
specific needs of tax and other finance professionals.

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About Oracle
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company."

SabrixReports is a separate module, allowing new reports to be added and
managed by tax professionals independent of the Sabrix Application Suite,
and like the Suite, SabrixReports requires only a standard Web browser to
access and generate reports; that is, no special viewer download is
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8 TB, good enough for sixth overall in the top 10
largest data warehouse category. As part of the rigorous
survey process , respondents must have a validated database that meets the
survey's requirements. Adams,
president and CEO of Sabrix.com.
All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective holders.

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In
addition, the survey determined that the world's largest transaction
processing system on UNIX runs Oracle(R) Database, with more than 16 TB of
data. In total, 12 systems (eight DSS and
four OLTP systems) running Linux were measured -- all of them running Oracle
Database. Oracle is the only database vendor whose
customers posted top results on Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms. In a short amount of time, this low-cost platform has proven it
can support the most demanding commercial requirements. All customer respondents were required to complete the
Winter TopTen Program survey and validate their entry by running the SQL
Validation Script against their production system.

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Winter surveyed Oracle customers from 20 countries on five continents , in
11 industries from government to healthcare to retail to telecommunications,
among others .com/VLDB/2005_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners_2005.

"In our latest release of the Sabrix Suite, we focused heavily on providing
higher degrees of accuracy, easier-to-use configuration capabilities , and
better tax policy and process management tools," stated Steve L.

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