Oracle Announces Winners of 2008 'Empower the Green Enterprise' Awards 

Oracle recently recognized 16 global customers and their respective partners with 'Empower the Green Enterprise' awards. The Oracle 'Empower the Green Enterprise' award honors customers from a wide-range of industries that are using Oracle's Applications and technology products to support green business practices and sustainability initiatives in order to reduce environmental impact, decrease costs, and improve business efficiencies.

"Global businesses recognize that environmental issues responsibility is good business," said Oracle Chairman Jeff Henley. "Whether green projects are driven by an organization's desire to protect the environment, reduce costs, produce eco-friendly goods to meet growing consumer demand, or comply with increasing levels of government regulation, the results can be both good for the environment and good for business. Oracle's "Empower the Enterprise" awards showcase the success of environmental IT initiatives and the tangible business benefits our customers across the world are realizing by pursuing green practices."

Recipients of the 2008 Oracle 'Empower the Green Enterprise' Award include: Alcoa, Australian Vintage Limited, BT, Dell, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Fiji Water, Ingersoll-Rand, Intercall, Interface, Motorola, National Ignition Facility & Photon Service, Novartis International AG, PG&E, Standard Parking, Sun, and Supervalu.

The 16 winning companies were selected by a panel of seven judges, including three sustainability experts: Cody Sisco, manager of Advisory Services at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR); Daniel Esty, green thought leader and co-author of Green to Gold; and Mike Sweeney, executive director of The Nature Conservancy's California chapter.

"With climate change emerging as a critical issue, it is important that leading technology vendors help their customers reduce their carbon footprints," said Dan Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University. "Oracle's 'Empower the Green Enterprise' awards highlight the company's focus on greenhouse gas emissions and environmental issues more generally—and show how organizations can leverage information technology for eco-advantage."

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