Corio and Solix Establish Strategic Alliance

Solix Certified to Deliver Corio Applications on Demand

SAN CARLOS AND SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 19, 2003 – Corio, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRIO), a leading enterprise application service provider, and Solix Technologies, Inc, a leading global IT services company, today announced a worldwide alliance. The two companies will team in a strategic partnership to deliver Corio Applications on Demand, an end-to-end enterprise application solution for a fixed monthly fee.

The capital costs, skilled resources and time required to implement and manage enterprise applications are substantial. Corio Applications on Demand enables organizations to defer the expensive hardware and software purchases required to support enterprise applications. Customers scale the service as their needs evolve, enabling their IT organization to become more efficient and reduce operational costs. Corio Applications on Demand is a pay-as-you-go, utility like service to deliver leading enterprise applications from independent software vendors.

Solix leverages the capability of over 400 consultants worldwide with technical and functional skills in strategic planning, new implementations, upgrades, migrations and managed services. Solix provides technology expertise, domain knowledge, and best-of-breed methodologies to deliver complete, integrated solutions. As a certified Corio Applications on Demand Partner Solix is trained to provide onsite, offsite and offshore consulting services. The Corio/Solix alliance will support the Corio Transition, Corio OnSite and Corio Full Service delivery models.

“We are excited to partner with Corio and become certified for Corio Applications on Demand,” said Neeraj Chawla, vice president at Solix. “Utility computing offers compelling advantages and lowers IT costs.”

“Corio Applications on Demand helps organizations increase IT throughput,” said John Ottman, executive vice president of Worldwide Markets at Corio. “On demand services scale and adjust as requirements change, reducing the cost of enterprise computing.”

About Corio, Inc.

Corio, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRIO) is a leading enterprise application service provider (ASP). For a fixed monthly fee, Corio manages leading applications from PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, Ariba and Siebel Systems. Corio provides applications management, consulting services, and iSRVCE technology resource management (TRM) software.

Additional information about Corio is available at www.corio.com

Corio is a registered trademark of Corio, Inc. Applications on Demand, OnDemand, iSRVCE and SRVCE are trademarks of Corio, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Dance with the Penguins

This white paper demonstrates implementation of eBusiness Suite on Linux platform, which is fast becoming the preferred platform for hosting Oracle eBusiness Suite. Presenting a case for migrating your existing costly servers to a more economic Linux environment, the paper outlines the migration path from a non-Linux (IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris) system and highlights a recent Linux implementation. Reliability, scalability and performance parameters suggest a drastically reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Linux systems. Use of database clustering technology, active use of standby servers and other techniques for sizing Linux systems shall also be discussed.

Time to Dance with the Penguin – Implement E-Business Suite on Linux!
Authors: Solix DBA Team & Mohan