LOS

Date: May 31, 2012
Time: 1 PM EST

Organizations are reaping the benefits of simplifying IT, lowering costs and dramatically improving transactional throughput by deploying optimized application-to-disk solutions. These pre-tuned, tested solutions encompass a wide variety of applications and use cases. Hear from industry experts, and IT executives, how these full-stack solutions can achieve three times faster deployment times and up to 75% reductions in acquisition and operational costs.

Customers are rapidly realizing the benefits of integrated, application-to-disk solutions that are fully optimized, pre-tuned and tested. Join this virtual event to hear:

• Gartner research highlights how pre-tested solutions are important to today's data centers
• How Oracle Software Runs Best on Oracle Hardware: Application-to-Disk Use Cases from Oracle experts

Your data center can be fast, highly productive and very economical. Register today and find out how.

Attend the Webcast series to hear best practices from customers and industry leaders.

Are your enterprise applications slow to respond and costly to maintain? Are you dealing with infrastructure silos? If so, and you're ready to rethink your application architecture and cloud computing, this Webcast series is for you.

In this Webcast series, we'll explore best practices for simplifying IT operations while delivering the application performance that the business needs. You'll learn from Gartner about the convergence of cloud-based application infrastructure and fabric computing. You'll also hear best practices from Oracle product experts and customers. Please select the sessions you are interested in attending and then complete the registration form below.

Learn the key tools, frameworks, techniques, and best practices for building database-backed applications through presentations and hands-on labs demonstrating innovative and performance-enhancing methods. Oracle database application development experts will answer your questions via real-time moderated chat. Enjoy post-event benefits such as advanced lab content downloads.

Americas - Tuesday May 15th, 2012
9:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm BRT

The Oracle Java teams have delivered update releases for Java SE and Java FX.

Java SE 7 Update 4

• This is the first time Oracle is delivering both the JDK and JavaFX SDK for Mac OS X
• Oracle has continued to work on merging JRockit and HotSpot JVMs to leverage the best features in each.
• Java SE 7 Update 4 features includes the next-generation Garbage Collection algorithm Garbage First (G1).
• New JVM (Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, version 23) features JRockit JVM feature convergence. Some of the value-add features of the JRockit JVM are re-implemented in the HotSpot JVM.
• Java SE 7 Update 4 is the first consumer release of the Java 7 JRE that will be made available as the default version on Java.com.

Java FX

The JavaFX 2.1 release includes the JavaFX Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Windows and Mac OS X platforms. The JavaFX SDK provides the tools and technologies for developing JavaFX applications with these new features:

• Playback support for digital media stored in the MPEG-4 multimedia container format containing H.264/AVC video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio.
• New Webview support for JavaScript to Java method calls, which allows a user to render HTML/JavaScript and let JavaScript (in WebView) make calls to Java APIs to offload specific operations to Java.
• The JavaFX 2.1 release adds the ability to use Windows-style LCD sub-pixel rendering. All the JavaFX UI controls will be LCD-text enabled by default on Windows, as will WebView, the Webkit-based node for rendering Web content. Applications can also opt-in to use LCD text on the low-level scenegraph text node by a new API.
• Additional user interface enhancements in JavaFX 2.1 include: controls for combo box, stacked chart and application-wide menu bar.
• JavaFX Scene Builder 1.0 Early Access - a visual layout tool for the JavaFX platform. The JavaFX Scene Builder enables designing UI screens by simply dragging and positioning objects.

Oracle is again the #1 vendor in the Application Server category with a market share of 43.1% based on revenue, according to the most recent Gartner "Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide 2011" report.

With a strong growth rate of 18.4%, higher even than in 2010, Oracle continues to lead the application server category with a total market share (based on revenue) greater than the next three competitors combined and almost 10 points higher than its nearest competitor.

Oracle meets its environmental goals with products we design for sustainability -- find out how you can too.

Oracle sees sustainability as a natural extension of how its business operates. The same sustainability solutions and environmental best practices that are embedded in our normal business operations are also available to our customers. Whether through measurement accounting, waste reductions, the elimination of hazardous materials, or optimizations, Oracle is in the unique position of being able to provide sustainability solutions for customers that span the entire spectrum of IT and business requirements.

Learn how to achieve environmental best practices with products designed to help you meet your sustainability goals.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 exceeds SAP Sybase in DBA productivity.

A recent ORC International cost comparison study found that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 far exceeded SAP Sybase ASE 15.7 in DBA productivity and helped to significantly lower database management costs.

The study concluded Oracle Database 11g allowed IT organizations and DBAs to:

• Perform administrative tasks 71% faster
• Take 43% fewer steps for the same set of standard routine functions
• Save up to US$85,200 per year, per DBA by increasing productivity

Register to download the study and find out how Oracle offers more performance, more automation, and more control than Sybase--all at a lower cost.

Find out how Solaris 11 will revolutionize your cloud and support your mission-critical applications.

The demands placed on IT organizations to increase performance, reduce complexity and lower costs are putting a strain on constantly shrinking budgets. Moving to the cloud can be a solution, but complications surrounding security and manageability can make the transition daunting.

Join the Online Forum on the 25th April to hear both customers and Oracle experts, including Markus Flierl, Vice President of Oracle Solaris Engineering, explain how the latest developments to Oracle Solaris 11 since its launch in November can help revolutionize your cloud adoption and transform your data center.

You'll discover how Oracle Solaris 11 can help you:

• Improve Performance and Simplify the Management and Deployment of over 11,000 third-party Applications
• Maximize Systems Utilization
• Protect Your Data
• Enhance Business Agility
• Boost Productivity

With live online chat available for all sessions you'll be able to ask the experts the questions that are important to you on Oracle Solaris.

Oracle is #1 in the RDBMS Sector for 2011

Gartner has published their market share numbers for 2011 based on total software revenues. According to Gartner, Oracle

• Is #1 in worldwide RDBMS software revenue share
• Holds more revenue share than its seven closest competitors combined
• Grew at 18.0 percent, exceeding both the industry average (16.3 percent) and the growth rates of its closest competitors.

Oracle's Mark Hurd delivers IT simplification strategy and emphasizes business analytics strategy.

Oracle Business Analytics can change the way you do business. Harness exploding volumes of data to forecast and plan at the speed of business, deliver real-time intelligence to your mobile workforce, and accelerate your financial close and reporting process. Place analytics into the hands of every one of your decision-makers -- so they can see more, think smarter, and act faster.

Breakout Sessions:

• Achieving Predictable Performance with Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management
• Explore All Relevant Data -- Introducing Oracle Endeca Information Discovery
• Run Your Business Faster and Smarter with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications on Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
• Analyzing and Deciding with Big Data

Simplify Storage Management with Oracle's Latest Software
Event Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT

Tape monitoring solutions have been very expensive and require risky deployments directly into your data path, leaving critical data insecure. With Oracle's new StorageTek Tape Analytics software, you proactively capture library, drive, and media performance metrics, getting the insight to ensure the health of your global tape environment.

Join this webcast to hear Jim Cates, Vice President of Hardware Development and Michael O'Donnell, Director of Hardware Development at Oracle give an overview of the new, exciting Oracle StorageTek Tape Analytics Software.

Speakers:

• Jim Cates, Vice President, Hardware Development, Oracle
• Michael O'Donnell, Director, Hardware Development, Oracle
• Tom Wultich, Director, Tape Systems Product Management, Oracle

The Industry's Best x86 Platform for Running Oracle Enterprise Applications
Event Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT

Join us on April 10 for an important launch Webcast. You'll hear how Oracle is enhancing the Sun x86 server family. This new generation of x86 servers provides enhanced performance and security, improved virtualization tools, and reduced costs -- all with no change to your existing software environment.

Watch this Webcast and learn how you can have improved reliability, better performance, and power efficiency, plus:

• Enhanced virtualization for consolidation and improved server utilization
• Reduced licensing costs with 0.5 core factors for Oracle per core-priced software
• Unparalleled reliability and availability for enterprise environments
• Increased visibility and efficiency with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and expert 24/7 support
• Ongoing protection for your existing software and training investments

You can increase data center performance and security while you decrease complexity and realize better overall TCO. Join us on April 10 and find out more.

Oracle Customer Showcase at Pella Corporation
Event Date: April 24-25, 2012
Location: 102 Main Street, Pella, IA 50219

Pella Corporation is an award-winning supply chain innovator, leveraging LeanSigma principles to enhance and refine every aspect of their business. Superior customer insight and tight alignment between their business and IT strategies have created tremendous competitive advantage for Pella, even during the current economic downturn.

Oracle and Pella invite you to join us for a two-day exploration of the principles and IT best practices that propel the Pella's relentless focus on product quality, business efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

Discussions will focus on:

• The business imperative for partnership between IT and executive leadership
• Strategic integration of Business Intelligence and Supply Chain applications for manufacturing insight
• Advanced CRM implementation to support a corporate culture of superior customer service
• The ROI of creating and sustaining a deep, collaborative relationship with Oracle

This intimate, interactive event will include a variety of presentations from Pella, Oracle and industry experts; roundtable discussions, Solution Pavilion, plant tours and networking activities. A separate track for CIOs and IT executives will be offered. Organizations are encouraged to send multiple people to maximize your learning experience.

Oracle engineered systems, storage, and analytics support the Avengers.

With extreme performance in mind, S.H.I.E.L.D. Chief Systems Administrator John Smith assembled an integrated private cloud on a foundation of Oracle engineered systems and business analytics software. Individually, each system component delivers extreme performance. Together, the systems support even more information for deeper analysis and some of the most important decisions in the history of humankind.

Total Cloud Control for Systems
Event Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. GMT or 12 noon GMT / 4 p.m. MSK / 8 p.m. CST

Join Oracle Vice President of Systems Management Steve Wilson and a panel of Oracle executives to find out how your enterprise cloud can achieve 10x improved performance and 12x operational agility. Only Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c allows you to:

• Accelerate mission-critical cloud deployment
• Unleash the power of Solaris 11, the first cloud OS
• Simplify Oracle engineered systems management

You'll also get a chance to have your questions answered by Oracle product experts and dive deeper into the technology by viewing our demos that trace the steps companies like yours take as they transition to a private cloud environment.

Oracle's Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Earnings
Results were announced on March 20, 2012.

• Listen to the Earnings Call Webcast
• Safe Harbor Statement (PDF)
• Q3FY12 Earnings Press Release and Financials (PDF)
• Q4FY12 Guidance GAAP to non-GAAP EPS Reconciliation (PDF)

Join us on April 4 for a Webcast--chat live with business analytics experts.
Event Date: Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. GMT or 12 noon GMT / 4 p.m. MSK / 8 p.m. CST

Join Mark Hurd and Balaji Yelamanchili as they unveil the latest advances in Oracle's strategy for placing analytics into the hands of every one of your decision-makers -- so that they can see more, think smarter, and act faster.

Learn about the latest developments in business intelligence technology and applications, advanced analytics, performance management applications, and engineered systems. You'll find out how you can harness the exploding volumes of data being generated inside your organization -- and beyond the firewall -- to:

• Deliver real-time intelligence to your mobile workforce globally
• Forecast and plan at the speed of business
• Accelerate your financial close and reporting process

Don't miss this opportunity to see and hear how Oracle Business Analytics can change the way you do business.

Learn Why Oracle Linux Is the Best Linux for Enterprise Computing
Event Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Time: 9:30 a.m. PT / 12:30 p.m. ET

Join us for a series of information-rich Webcasts and "Live Online Chat" with some of the most knowledgeable Linux experts. Fresh off Oracle's launch of Oracle Linux with the latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2, we'll cover a host of key technology and strategic developments.

Agenda:

• Leading Innovations in Enterprise Linux hosted by Oracle Executives
• Customer Presentation: How Oracle Helps Reduce Cost and Improve Performance of Database Applications at Progressive Insurance
• What's New in Oracle Linux
• Get More Value from your Linux Vendor

Get Ahead with an Oracle Hardware Refresh

Successful organizations no longer see IT as just an internally-focused cost center. They are improving the bottom line with more efficient technologies and processes, and investing those savings into innovative new technologies that drive top line growth. By simplifying IT with modern technologies, organizations can maximize application investments and optimize resources. Get started by refreshing older server and storage hardware with the latest generation of faster, more efficient equipment to reduce cost and gain competitive advantage.

Learn more about the benefits of upgrading:

• SPARC Servers
• SPARC SuperCluster
• x86 Servers
• Blade Systems
• Disk Storage
• Tape Storage

Across industries, executives are realizing that we have entered a new era. It's the era of the empowered consumer, where success can only be achieved by delivering great customer experiences.

View the Webcast replay with Oracle President, Mark Hurd and senior executives from Oracle and RightNow to learn more about our strategy and combined, best-in-class solutions that will transform the way organizations deliver great customer experiences across every channel to achieve sustainable business advantage.

Together, Oracle and RightNow will:

• Enable unified, personalized and relevant customer experiences across all channels and customer touchpoints along the entire customer journey.
• Offer a best-in-class customer service cloud that delivers exceptional experiences across the web, social networks and contact centers.
• Help organizations accelerate the acquisition of new customers, maximize customer retention, and improve operational efficiency.

Speakers:

• Mark Hurd, President, Oracle
• Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development, Oracle
• Greg Gianforte, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, RightNow
• Wayne Huyard, Senior Vice President and General Manager, RightNow Global Business Unit

Rapid Application Development for "Zero Downtime" Telecommunication Applications
Event Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT/12 noon ET

The telecommunications market is changing fast -- does your organisation have the agility to keep up? Without seamless integration across the hardware and software stack, developing applications that require service availability can be slow, expensive, and risky.

The Oracle Communications Service Availability Machine is an integrated package of hardware and software optimised for service availability. Fully tested and rapidly deployed, it allows you to develop applications faster and more predictably than ever before -- and maintain your competitive advantage.

Join our live Webcast on Tuesday, 20 March to discover how you can:

• Deliver superior application and service availability with real-time fault management and stateful failover with session integrity
• Drive revenue with streamlined project lifecycles and faster application deployment
• Minimise risk with a proven, standards-based solution optimised for service availability

Try the MySQL TCO calculator -- find out how much you can save!

The MySQL TCO Savings Calculator is intended to provide an example of your potential savings based on input of your current system configuration.

Analytics at the Speed of Thought
Event Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT/12 noon ET

What if you could run financial and operational planning cycles 10 times faster? Or monitor and adjust marketing campaigns in real time? What if you could instantly visualize how a price change would impact the profitability of thousands of products?

Join this interactive online event and learn how you can manage your business smarter and faster with the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine - an industry first. In this exclusive briefing, you'll find out how organizations like yours are embracing Oracle Exalytics to plan, monitor, and make decisions at unprecedented speed.

You'll gain valuable information and practical tips on how to:

• Support exponentially growing data volumes and user populations
• Run business intelligence and analytic applications faster than ever before
• Enable business users to interact with data, visualize it, and discover new insights
• Forecast and plan more frequently, and at greater levels of detail
• Enable mobile intelligence across your organization

Speakers:
Balaji Yelamanchili - Senior Vice President of Analytics and Performance Management, Oracle
Paul Rodwick - Vice President, Product Management, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle

Register today for this complimentary Webcast.

Join Oracle Hardware Systems on The Extreme Performance Tour to see the future of enterprise hardware—and discover how you can get it today. Learn about the future of enterprise hardware and how every Oracle system is engineered to deliver extreme, industry-leading performance—driving reduced complexity, higher productivity, and igniting faster innovation.

At this high-octane event, discover how Oracle hardware and software are optimized to deliver extreme performance across your IT infrastructure.

Get the inside track on Oracle's hardware strategy and product roadmap from the people who know Oracle hardware best. And be sure to meet our global experts in the Extreme Performance exhibition area.

Coming to a city near you.

Follow the conversation on Twitter. Use hashtag #oraclehardware

Oracle Offers Free Trial of Innovative Ksplice Zero-Downtime Updates to Red Hat Customers

News Facts

• Oracle today introduced a 30-day free trial of Oracle's Ksplice zero-downtime kernel update technology for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.
• Oracle is the only enterprise Linux provider that can offer zero-downtime updates that enable customers to apply security updates, diagnostic patches and critical bug fixes without rebooting.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers can experience the benefit of Ksplice zero-downtime kernel updates for the kernels they have installed today without any system reconfiguration.
• Access the 30-day free Ksplice trial here. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.
• Oracle also announced that Ksplice zero-downtime kernel updates for Oracle's Red Hat Compatible Kernel are now available to Oracle Linux Premier Support customers. Zero-downtime updates for Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel have been available since September 2011.
• Additionally, Oracle extended the support lifecycle for Oracle Linux from eight to ten years, further enhancing the industry's most comprehensive and low-cost Linux support program.
• Oracle's Linux support program has distinguished itself from the start by offering more value to customers through lifetime support policies, premier backporting, comprehensive legal indemnification, best practices for deployment, and lower cost.

The word is out. There is one event that delivers the full spectrum of Oracle Technology and Applications education that you need to boost results and drive efficiency all year long. Designed and delivered by users just like you, COLLABORATE 12: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community offers:

• Sessions, interactive panel discussions and hands-on learning opportunities packed with first-hand experiences, case studies and practical "how-to" content
• Breaking product news and insider information from Oracle executive management and developers
• Ample opportunities to build your personal and professional networks, including special interest group (SIG) meetings, geographic networking events and receptions
• Informative and inspiring keynotes
• An exhibitor showcase packed with products and solutions providers who can help you solve your specific challenges
• Unique events such as the Women in Technology Forum- connect with key women who are examples of success in a fast-changing environment

Get information tailored to your needs through our three participating user groups.

COLLABORATE is a big event, but you can find just what you need with help from one of our three participating users groups. Submit your presentation or register with the group that best meets your needs to receive:

• Special access to events based on your Oracle product investments
• Event communications that keep you in the loop and help identify what you should be watching for at COLLABORATE
• Advance access to proceedings for the sessions you plan to attend

Delivers up to 70x More Performance for Complex Queries

News Facts

• Continuing to drive MySQL innovation, Oracle today announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2.
• For highly demanding Web-based and communications products and services, MySQL Cluster is designed to cost-effectively deliver 99.999% availability, high write scalability and very low latency.
• With SQL and NoSQL access through a new Memcached API, MySQL Cluster represents a "best of both worlds" solution allowing key value operations and complex SQL queries within the same database.
• With MySQL Cluster 7.2, users can also gain up to a 70x increase in performance on complex queries, and enhanced multi-data center scalability.
• MySQL Cluster 7.2 is also certified with Oracle VM. The combination of its elastic, on-demand scalability and self-healing features, together with Oracle VM support, makes MySQL Cluster an ideal choice for deployments in the cloud.
• Also generally available today is the latest release of the MySQL Cluster Manager, version 1.1.4, further improving the ease of use and administration of MySQL Cluster.

Attend the free Webcast to find out how to manage massive data volumes efficiently.

Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Time: 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET

Smart meters and smart grids can dramatically improve utility operations and customer interactions—but only if utilities manage the massive data volumes efficiently.

Oracle Engineered Systems—Exadata and Exalogic, plus Oracle's unique business and mission-critical applications—can:

• Process data at unprecedented rates
• Turn data into real intelligence
• Improve efficiency across every department

In this webcast we will explore the ways utilities of all sizes can take advantage of Oracle Engineered Systems to maximize the value of advanced metering and grid modernization programs.

• Hear our compelling results—including lower total cost of ownership obtained when Oracle Engineered Systems run meter-to-cash business processes
• We'll discuss in detail how we can help you convert the data deluge into actionable information and business value

Attend this webcast to learn how you can lower your cost and risk and simplify your operations with Oracle Engineered Systems for utilities.

On February 9, 2012, Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation, a leading provider of cloud-based talent management. The proposed transaction is subject to Taleo stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals, and customary closing conditions and is expected to close mid-year 2012. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.

Taleo's Talent Management Cloud helps organizations attract, develop, motivate and retain human capital to improve performance and drive growth.

Together, Oracle and Taleo expect to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their Human Resource operations and employee careers. The combination is expected to empower employees and managers to effectively manage careers throughout their entire employment, enable organizations to retain talent and optimize costs, and improve the employee experience through faster on boarding and better collaboration with team members via social media.

• Read the press release

Oracle Beats NetApp and EMC in Storage Magazine Quality Awards for NAS

Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances Earn Highest Ratings for Enterprise and Midrange NAS Systems

News Facts:

• Oracle today announced its Sun ZFS Storage Appliances earned the highest overall scores in the six-year history of Storage magazine's Quality Awards for NAS, for both enterprise and midrange NAS.
• Oracle bested the competition in initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and received high marks for sales force competence.
• In its analysis of the results, Storage magazine noted, "Oracle Corp. storage users are apparently the most satisfied among the legions of NAS users," and reported that 97 percent of Oracle enterprise NAS users surveyed would buy again.
• Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances deliver enterprise-class NAS capabilities to more than 3,000 customers and are ideal for enterprise applications, virtualization, cloud, storage consolidation, and data protection.
• Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances are the only NAS products engineered together with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle's SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, and are optimized for Oracle VM and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Engineered integration enables Oracle software to run fastest and most efficiently on Oracle storage.
• The Storage magazine Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified Storage/SearchStorage.com readers who assessed products in five categories: initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and sales force competence.

Big Data Online Forum – Big Data Essentials: What You Need to Know
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT – 1:30 p.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET – 4:30 p.m. ET

Big data is big news these days. But you don't base IT investment decisions on magazine headlines.

Join us for the Big Data Online Forum to learn the essentials of big data - from the technology underlying it to real-world use cases. Oracle Senior Technical Architect Tom Kyte, Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and other industry thought leaders will be on hand to explain how big data can deliver revolutionary insight and competitive advantage.

You'll get answers to tough questions surrounding big data, including:

• What business insight can big data uncover?
• How do you manage big data?
• How do you integrate big data and decision-making?

Register today for this half-day online event featuring live Q&A with big data experts.

Register now

Join Oracle for a live Webcast
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET

Across industries, executives are realizing that we have entered a new era. It's the era of the empowered consumer, where success can only be achieved by delivering great customer experiences.

Join Oracle President, Mark Hurd and senior executives from Oracle and RightNow to learn more about our strategy and combined, best-in-class solutions that will transform the way organizations deliver great customer experiences across every channel to achieve sustainable business advantage.

Together, Oracle and RightNow will:

• Enable unified, personalized and relevant customer experiences across all channels and customer touchpoints along the entire customer journey.
• Offer a best-in-class customer service cloud that delivers exceptional experiences across the web, social networks and contact centers.
• Help organizations accelerate the acquisition of new customers, maximize customer retention, and improve operational efficiency.

Don't miss this important webcast.

Register now

MySQL Embedded Online Forum:
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:00AM PST - 12:00 PM PST

MySQL is even better than you think. According to the experts, it's easier to use and it's more capable than most ISVs / OEMs realize, and by taking a few tried-and-tested steps before shipping your MySQL-embedded products, you can lower your product's costs and increase its performance.

Join our expert-created and delivered MySQL Embedded Online Forum to learn:

• Why MySQL is a great embedded database for startups as well as the largest software, hardware, and appliance vendors in the world, and how its features ensure costs remain low throughout an application's life cycle
• MySQL installation options that require minimal or zero end user effort and how to easily build them into your application
• How to secure MySQL embedded in applications, appliances, and devices
• Tips to simplify your integration with MySQL using the most popular MySQL Connectors and guidance on selecting the settings that will maximize your application's performance
• Why MySQL delivers excellent performance and how to go beyond the default settings to optimize MySQL's queries, reporting, and search capabilities

Register now or click the tabs (to the right) to learn more about the agenda, sessions, and speakers.

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Your Strategy. Your Cloud. Your Choice.

With all the cloud deployment choices available today—public, private, and hybrid—and all the service choices—software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service—how do you determine the right mix for your IT and business needs? Attend this conference and we'll help you find the cloud strategy that's right for your enterprise.

Oracle's cloud experts will show you how to:

• Choose the right public and private deployment models that best fit your enterprise usage
• Transform your data center to a private cloud model, plus add self-service, autoscaling, and metering/chargeback
• Select from Oracle's private and public cloud services to provide efficient, flexible enterprise cloud services for your business applications

Whether you are transitioning to the cloud or advancing to the next level, this event offers practical insights that can help you make the most of your cloud computing choices.

Coming to a city near you – register now!

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Learn about modern, lightweight development with Java EE 6 and Coherence

Java Developers and Architects will learn about Java EE6, WebLogic Server, Coherence, Eclipse, NetBeans, Maven and Hudson in hands on labs and sessions while interacting with Oracle product experts in live, moderated chats.

• Americas - Tuesday - Jan 24, 2012 - 9:30 am - 1:30 pm Pacific / 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern
• Europe/Russia - Tuesday Feb 7, 2012 - 9:30 am - 1:30 pm UK Time (GMT) / 10:30 am - 2:30 pm CET
• Asia Pacific (English) - Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 9:30am to 1:30pm India Standard Time
• Asia Pacific (Chinese) - February 21, 2012 - 9:00am to 12:00pm Beijing Standard Time

Register now

Oracle Enterprise Management Online Forum: Gain Total Control of Enterprise Clouds

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT – 1:30 p.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET – 4:30 p.m. ET

Join Oracle executives and product experts for this complimentary, half-day online forum and live chat to learn about the different phases of the cloud lifecycle, challenges associated with each phase and the Oracle cloud management solution that keeps you in total control of your cloud services every step of the way.

You'll hear from business and IT experts on how to:

• Justify your cloud initiative based on proven best practices
• Manage the entire cloud lifecycle from planning, provisioning, deployment through monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades using a single console
• Deliver integrated management of the entire cloud stack from applications to disks to maximize IT agility while minimizing the complexity and costs associated with IT management
• Create a business driven cloud with deep insight into applications, business services and transactions

Attend this interactive online event and find out how you can fast-track your business to the cloud.

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Oracle Online Systems Forum: Oracle Accelerates Your Business with Breakthrough Application to Disk Solutions

Event Date: 01/11/2012 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time

Join us for this online event and learn how Oracle Optimized Solutions help businesses lower their TCO, mitigate risk, and improve productivity while accelerating innovation across the entire technology stack. This event for information technology professionals features an executive keynote, breakout sessions with analyst insights, and customer case studies.

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Revenues and profits up.

Results were announced on December 20, 2011.

Learn more

Please join us on December 1, as Hasan Rizvi unveils the next generation of the industry's #1 application server and cornerstone of Oracle's cloud application foundation—Oracle WebLogic Server 12c.

Now is the time to find out why Oracle WebLogic Server is outperforming competitors with higher speed, lower TCO with simplified management, and accelerated time to market with developer efficiency innovations. Join fellow IT managers, architects, and developers to hear how the new release of Oracle WebLogic Server is:

• Designed to help you seamlessly move into the public or private cloud with an open, standards-based platform
• Built to drive higher value for your current infrastructure and significantly reduce development time and cost
• Optimized to run your solutions for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE); Oracle Fusion Middleware; and Oracle Fusion Applications
• Enhanced with transformational platforms and technologies such as Java EE 6, Oracle'sActive GridLink for RAC, Oracle Traffic Director, and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder

See the latest demos and hear from our leading developers on how this new release dramatically improves your deployment of applications for the cloud. In addition, you can participate in a developer-focused deep-dive session at 11 a.m. where experts will answer live chat questions on Oracle WebLogic Server 12c.

Don't miss this online launch event.

Register now

Build Your Next-Generation Datacenter in the Cloud

Join Oracle executives Mark Hurd and John Fowler at the Oracle Solaris 11 launch event in New York, and learn how you can build your infrastructure with Oracle Solaris 11 to:

• Accelerate internal, public, and hybrid cloud applications
• Optimize application deployment with built-in virtualization
• Achieve top performance and cost advantages with Oracle Solaris 11–based engineered systems

The launch event will also feature exclusive content for our in-person audience including a session led by the VP of core Solaris development and his leads on Solaris 11 and a customer insights panel during lunch. We will also have a technology showcase featuring our latest systems and Solaris technologies. The Solaris executive team will also be there throughout the day to answer questions and give insights into future developments in Solaris.

Don't miss the Oracle Solaris 11 launch in New York on November 9.

Register for the webcast

On October 24, 2011, Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNOW), a leading provider of cloud-based customer service. RightNow's Customer Service Cloud helps organizations deliver exceptional customer experiences across call centers, the web and social networks.

Oracle is moving aggressively to offer customers a full range of Cloud Solutions including sales force automation, human resources, talent management, social networking, databases and Java as part of the Oracle Public Cloud. Together, Oracle and RightNow can enable a superior customer experience at every contact and across every channel.

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On October 18, 2011, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca, a leading provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of 2011.

After the transaction closes, Oracle with Endeca plans to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured and unstructured information together enabling businesses to make stronger and more profitable decisions. The combination of Oracle ATG Commerce with Endeca's InFront web commerce solutions is expected to enhance cross-channel commerce, merchandising, and online customer experiences. Adding Endeca Latitude software to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBI EE) is expected to provide a single unified user interface for analysis of structured and unstructured data.

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