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The 27-year-old Geneva resident advanced to the finals of Kitzbuhel this spring, a losing effort to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.Serra, who will vying to capture his 22nd win of year has never played Rochus on the ATP World Tour.Both men, who stand at under six-foot possess great groundstrokes and tremendous foot speed.Tuesday's schedule in Lyon will be highlighted by:Top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs Kevin Kim, Fabrice Santoro vs Albert Montanes, and Arnaud Clement vs. Oscar Hernandez.Please check back throughout the week for continuing daily coverage from St Petersburg, Vienna, and Lyon.Cheers.. Ken Holmes to Lead Fiscal, Operational StrategiesWALNUT CREEK, Calif., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ Pointandship Software, Inc.(Point&Ship), the leading provider of full-service Shipping Expense ManagementSoftwareTM (SEMSTM) and a certified minority business enterprise (MBE), todayannounced that Ken Holmes has joined the company as chief financial officerand chief operating officer. Holmes brings with him more than 20 years ofcomprehensive financial and operational experience in the software andhigh-tech industries.(Logo: http://)Most recently, Holmes, a Point&Ship board member, served as CFO for MercadoSoftware, an e-commerce search and merchandising company.

While at Mercado, hewas responsible for accounting, finance, legal and human resources and alsoled the company to a successful acquisition by Omniture, Inc. Prior to joiningMercado, Holmes acted as CFO for BackWeb Technologies Ltd., an offline Webapplication enablement provider, and he previously was CFO of ProjectInVision,a project services automation technology supplier. Earlier in his career,Holmes was corporate controller for Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. He holds aBachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University ofSan Francisco."We are extremely pleased to welcome Ken to our management team. Mesa, president and CEO of Point&Ship."Ken shares our common vision of driving market share while providingexcellent customer service to our growing client base.

His business acumenwill prove vital as we continue to execute our strategy going forward."In his new role, Holmes also will support Point&Ship's technical, customerservice and implementation teams.About Pointandship Software, Inc.Pointandship Software, Inc.'s (Point&Ship) proprietary Shipping ExpenseManagement SoftwareTM (SEMSTM) provides the only end-to-end shippingmanagement solution for corporations. SEMS simplifies shipping tasks,standardizes procedures and increases efficiency of operation by unifyingclient shipping needs into a Software as a Service (SaaS). With externalbilling and account review, SEMS provides customers with comprehensiveoversight on express, ground, freight and courier services through all majorcarriers.Founded in 1994 by Ted C. Mesa, Point&Ship recorded 2008 revenue in excess of$50 million and has a client list that comprises Fortune 1000 and ForbesGlobal 2000 companies, including world-class banking and financialinstitutions, national retail chains, consumer packaged-goods conglomeratesand leading universities as well as state and government entities. Point&Shipis a certified minority business enterprise (MBE).For more information, visit SOURCEPointandship Software, Inc.Janet Haney of Pointandship Software, Inc., 1-415-902-4283,. Oracle Database 11g and Options Help Organizations to Improve ApplicationPerformance, Availability and ScalabilityREDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan.

21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ News FactsAdoption of Oracle(R) Database 11g ( http://)continues across all industries and regions, Oracle announced today.Organizations such as Angelcom, Comic Relief, Interactive One, andProQuest, have implemented Oracle Database 11g to power their enterpriseapplications.Mission Critical DeploymentsBased in Bogota, Colombia, Angelcom S.A. ( http://)is a leader in collections technology for Mass Passenger Transit systems.Thecompany developed, implemented and maintains the IT platform and collectionsprocedures for Bogota's mass transit system TransMilenio.Angelcom S.A.migrated to Oracle Database 11g to deliver a highly available, robustinfrastructure in support of TransMilenio.With Oracle Database 11g, OraclePartitioning( http://) andOracle Advanced Security( http://), Angelcom S.A.improved online access to real-time transit system data across theorganization, reduced the time to backup their transactions by 95 percent, andfurther secured the transit system's 4.5 million daily transactions,respectively.Angelcom S.A. high availability along withrapid access to transit collections data dating back more than eight yearswhile capturing an average of 4.5 million transactions daily," said Juan PabloSegura Rocha, Director, Information Center and Management, Angelcom S.A."Oracle's infrastructure software helps Angelcom's IT systems operate 24 hoursa day, 365 days a year while providing end users, who count on the informationto run queries and reports that support decision making, continual access.""Each upgrade-from Oracle8 Database through to 8i, 9i, 10g and now 11g-hasincreased system performance, stability, and availability, while cuttingmanagement overheads, and providing ever-higher levels of service to donors,"said Charlotte Melen, Web Technology Manager, Comic Relief."As a new application with no legacy code, Reference Linking offered us agood opportunity to introduce Oracle Database 11g into our environment," saidMark Bobak, Senior Database Administrator, System & Product Technologies,ProQuest."The testing and implementation of Reference Linking on OracleDatabase 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters went smoothly.The systemhas been live for several months now, and it's humming along.""Oracle Database 11g and options play a key role in helping customers toimprove quality of service, lower management overhead and generate a fasterreturn on their investments," said William Hardie, vice president of DatabaseProduct Marketing, Oracle."Customers across all industries and regions areturning to Oracle Database 11g to power their business critical transactionaland data warehousing applications."Supporting ResourcesAngelcom S.A. Customer Snapshot( http://)Comic Relief Customer Snapshot( http://)Listen to Oracle Database Podcasts( http://)About Active Data Guard( http://)About Oracle Advanced Compression( http://)About Oracle Real Application Testing( http://)About Oracle Total Recall( http://)About Oracle Unbreakable Linux( http://)About Oracle VM( http://)Download a free, evaluation version of Oracle Database 11g( http://)Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.About OracleOracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company.For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http:// is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or itsaffiliates.