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Relationship to Provide Life Sciences Industry with End-to-End Solution, from Drug Discovery to Sales and Marketing

CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 16, 2002 - Acero, a company with roots in enterprise software and life sciences, today announced its support of Oracle Corporation's(NASDAQ: ORCL) Information Architecture for Life Sciences. The relationship with Acero is expected to help enable Oracle's open e-business platform to integrate scientific and business applications for pharmaceutical and biotech companies to unify research and business processes.

Acero's "science-intelligent"(tm) platform is the first and only enterprise knowledge discovery solution to unify vast and diverse volumes of data, along with their related applications and tools, into a single, scientific context. Through the use of an extensive model of science, the platform understands the context of data being integrated, the relationships between associated data, and how to present all data as common and consistent scientific concepts to applications and users. This comprehensive enterprise solution enables research organizations to focus time and effort on their true mission: scientific discovery.

Oracle's Information Architecture automates the transaction flow across the value chain, helping give life sciences companies increased efficiency throughout the discovery and development process and helping reduce time-to-market. In addition, by enabling the integration of key business and scientific data from disparate applications, Information Architecture offers a single source of truth to make timely, informed decisions on how to run business practices.

For more information, visit www.acero.com.