Akamai, Compaq, Interwoven, and Oracle Discuss Accelerating E-Business Operations at the Edge

Contacts:
Jeff Young Akamai Technologies (617) 250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com	--or--	Joe Eckert Compaq (978) 479-0130 Joe.Eckert@compaq.com
Mary Ellen Ynes Interwoven, Inc. (408) 530-7043 mynes@interwoven.com	--or--	Julie Geer-Brown Oracle (650) 607-5204 julie.geer-brown@oracle.com

Companies gather at recent Fall Internet World 2001 for panel discussion on open specification Edge Side Includes (ESI); Webcast now available at www.esi.org

NEW YORK, NY - December 18, 2001 - Representatives from e-business leaders Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), Compaq, Interwoven (Nasdaq: IWOV), and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), convened last week at Fall Internet World 2001 to discuss the latest technologies emerging to accelerate e-business operations at the Internet's edge.

Moderated by IDC analyst Lucinda Borovick, the panel discussion focused on the benefits and growing impact of Edge Side Includes (ESI), an open mark-up language created to define Web page fragments, such as customized stock quotes and catalog prices, for dynamic assembly at the network's edge.

To view the panel discussion on-demand, please visit: www.esi.org

Unique to ESI is a mechanism for managing content transparently across Application Server solutions, Content Infrastructure, Content Management Systems and Content Delivery Networks. ESI enables companies to develop Web applications once and choose at deployment time where the application should be assembled – on the application server, the content infrastructure, the content management system or the content delivery network, significantly reducing the cost and performance constraints of delivering dynamic content.

Akamai, Compaq, Interwoven, and Oracle, as well as other industry leaders, have all provided support for the creation of ESI as an open, uniform programming model that facilitates interoperability of ESI-compliant applications across multiple vendor implementations.

For more information on ESI, including a draft of the specification, an ESI Overview and technical documents, please visit: www.esi.org