To ensure that mobile workers have access to critical corporate data whenever and wherever they need it, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2 for Symbian OS, the mobile operating system that powers today's most popular smartphones. Oracle has also added several Systems Integrators to its growing list of partners supporting Oracle Database Lite 10g for Symbian OS. Symbian OS is licensed by the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers and to date, close to 60 million phones based on Symbian OS have shipped worldwide to over 250 major network operators.

With mobile technologies playing a critical role for employees across a wide array of industries, maintaining centralized control over management, security and application functionality has become increasingly important. Oracle's mobile database, coupled with Symbian OS, provides field employees with direct and secure access to essential company data. Together, with their partners, Oracle and Symbian are enabling the interoperability of mobile devices with mobile networks, applications and services.

"Oracle Database Lite 10g for Symbian OS -- a combination of the world's leading database for the enterprise and the world's leading mobile operating system -- enables enterprise mobile workers to access their mission-critical data where and when they need it," said Jerry Panagrossi, vice president of US operations, Symbian. "In and out of the office, Symbian and Oracle are improving business user productivity by extending enterprise applications to the growing number of Symbian OS phones worldwide."

Mobile Partner Ecosystem

EMCC Software and TrustLink are two of the new global SIs using the Oracle Database Lite to extend enterprise applications to the increasing number of mobile workers using Symbian OS phones worldwide. Working closely with Symbian and many device manufacturers, EMCC Software provides software development services and innovative applications and solutions to the mobile industry. As a Symbian, Series 60 and UIQ Competence Center, EMCC's experience in platform development, device creation, and technology implementation across key mobile platforms makes them a partner of choice for many organizations who wish to exploit the mobile opportunity.

TrustLink is a vendor of mobile business applications to the Symbian ecosystem and a provider of software development services covering cross platform architecture design and development, real time streaming (RTSP, RTP/RTCP), and multimedia applications (SMIL 2.0 and MPEG4) to the handset industry. TrustLink's mobile front-end application Field Service 3.0, running on UIQ 2.1, has been ported to Oracle Database Lite 10g. The company is a Symbian Platinum Partner and an active participant in the development of UIQ 3 on Symbian OS v9. TrustLink is also a co-founder of Promyzer, the vendor of mobile real-time financial market trading applications.

"By choosing Symbian OS, Oracle is enabling millions of workers who rely on mobile technologies to do their jobs every day the opportunity to increase productivity," said Marie-Anne Neimat, vice president of development, Oracle. "Working together with our partners from handset manufacturers and ISVs to global SIs, mobile workers have access to the same high quality, secure applications whether in the office or on the road."

Oracle Database Lite 10g makes it easier to develop mobile schemas, deliver high availability options and enable users to synchronize data seamlessly between their corporate database and mobile device at regular intervals. The mobile manager in Oracle Database Lite 10g also allows customers to administer and monitor their full mobile chain easily from a single, Web-based console -- providing advanced features for application, system, security and device management. Relying on the Oracle Grid Computing infrastructure, the mobile database provides customers with a secure and reliable technology architecture that enables increased performance and incremental scalability to support thousands of concurrent users.