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World's Largest Enterprise Software Company Selects Idiom Worldserver For Globalization Platform

Oracle Chooses WorldServer to Help Reduce the Time, Cost and Complexity of Translation and Localization for Help, Documentation and Training

Dublin, Ireland - August 2, 2004 - Globalization Management Systems (GMS) leader Idiom^® Technologies, Inc., today announced that Oracle^® (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, has selected Idiom WorldServer™ as an integral component of its Dublin-based "Translation Factory", the translation infrastructure used by Oracle to simultaneously ship products, Web content, collateral and documentation in 32 languages across all geographies.

Oracle first purchased WorldServer in 2002 to support a strategic initiative to better deliver its online content globally. The success of the Oracle.com globalization effort suggested that similar benefits might be achieved if WorldServer was used for other types of content that required globalization. After an evaluation of competing GMS offerings, WorldServer was again selected for a multi-month pilot project that focused on delivering globalized product iHelp. This extensive pilot confirmed that the same WorldServer benefits could apply to Oracle's translation and localization efforts for all Help, Documentation and Training material, based on its ability to address the following needs:

- Accelerate Time-to-Market: The pilot showed that WorldServer could be seamlessly integrated with Oracle's internally developed globalization tools, thereby delivering the process automation needed to achieve "SimShip".

- Improve Translation Quality: Oracle also found that it was able to more consistently reuse commonly translated terms, phrases and sentences and that they were able to share these translation assets across more content types. As a result, they were able to eliminate translation inconsistencies that often result from working with multiple third party vendors from project to project.

- Simplified Vendor Management: The pilot also showed that with WorldServer, Oracle would be able to simplify the management of its vendor base for many content types thus reducing the workload on its internal staff.

"Oracle has one of the most experienced and sophisticated translation and localization teams we've ever seen, and we're honored to work with them to improve their globalization efforts," said Joe Fiorentino, president and CEO of Idiom Technologies. "Oracle's use of WorldServer illustrates the true scalability of our solution that can be leveraged on a massive scale to simplify the globalization process. By using WorldServer any global enterprise, large or small, will realize substantial improvements in productivity, quality and cost savings - real business drivers in today's competitive market."

About WorldServer
The WorldServer product family is designed to meet the specific needs of the entire globalization team through a variety of capabilities, including:

- An enterprise-class globalization server that maximizes translation reuse, and speeds translated content and materials to market.

- An asset integration system that enables customers to fully leverage their previous investments in enterprise content management systems (ECM), databases, software configuration management systems (SCM), and other systems where content is stored and managed.

- Process automation that automates many of the business processes and tasks commonly performed in any translation and localization effort.

- And desktop translation tool integration that maximizes translator productivity.

About Idiom
Idiom Technologies creates simultaneous enterprises that rapidly deliver business-critical content in different forms, different markets, and different languages simultaneously. Since 1998, Idiom has been helping companies such as Adobe Systems, Baxter Healthcare, eBay, General Electric, Motorola, and Oracle become simultaneous enterprises, and achieve worldwide competitive advantage by:

- Automating content globalization to speed time-to-market.

- Assuring global content quality to improve customer satisfaction.

- Accelerating international revenue while decreasing globalization costs.

To learn more, contact Idiom today at +1 781.464.6000, send email to PR@idiominc.com, or visit www.idiominc.com.


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