• Reduce the cost of deploying, integrating, and monitoring business applications.
• Deploy on Enterprise Grids and cluster commodity hardware to lower hardware and administration costs while increasing system availability.
• Accelerate applications with Web caching on the fastest 100% compliant J2EE server.
• Develop, monitor, and manage standards-based Web services.
• Increase productivity with an enterprise portal.
• Empower better decisions with integrated business intelligence.
• Build applications once for delivery to any device, anywhere.
• Lower support costs with single sign-on facilities.
• Improve security with centralized user provisioning.
• Reduce middleware complexity with a complete and integrated application server.

For more details about new features in Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4), please see the Oracle Application Server Version 9.0.4 New Features whitepaper at http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias.