Earlier today, Oracle announced the addition of two best-in-class product solutions to our industry-leading Oracle Identity Management solution. We want to take this opportunity to inform you, our customers and partners, about these important additions to our product suite and the benefits we expect these new products to offer you.

Oracle has acquired Thor Technologies to provide an enterprise-wide user provisioning solution to our customers. Today, many organizations manage security privileges for thousands of users across dozens of mission critical information systems and enterprise applications. Thor Technologies' user provisioning solution automates the process of creating, monitoring, and managing users, their accounts, and the associated security privileges in these systems. It can help you lower the cost of user and password administration within your organization, can protect you against security vulnerabilities, and can improve your ability to audit and track compliance with regulatory and organization-wide security policies.

Oracle has also acquired OctetString to provide a Virtual Directory solution to our customers. Today, most organizations manage user profile information in a variety of different stores—LDAP directories, databases, X.500 repositories, and other systems. Each of these systems may in turn have a partial definition of a specific user's profile. OctetString's Virtual Directory solution provides the ability to dynamically create a single point of administration for user profiles across these systems. It can also help you lower the cost of security administration and protect you against security vulnerabilities.

In addition to these acquisitions, our product development organization has been working actively to make our Oracle Identity Management solution the best in the industry. We are taking an application-centric approach, building identity management functions into enterprise applications and business processes and delivering this capability as part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle's Identity Management product offering, the broadest in the industry, now includes access control/single sign on, identity administration, identity federation, user provisioning, directory and virtual directory services, web services security and management, and database security solutions. Over the summer, we have also completed certifying these solutions with Oracle Database 10g, Fusion Middleware 10g, E-Business Suite 11.5.X, PeopleSoft 8.47, and JD Edwards 8.95. Moreover, all these solutions work in "real world" environments, supporting a broad array of heterogeneous systems, packaged applications, and industry standards.

We understand that identity management software is mission-critical to our customers. We are committed to helping our customers improve security and enhance compliance with our solutions. We have made and continue to make significant investments in product development to build the best products, to train our support and service delivery organizations, and to develop a salesforce that can help bring these solutions to our customers. We are excited to add Thor's leading user provisioning and OctetString's innovative virtual directory technology to our overall suite, thereby strengthening our best-in-class solution.

Please join us on December 6 at 8 a.m. PST for an Oracle Identity Management Roadmap Update webcast to hear the latest information about our overall identity management roadmap and how the addition of Thor and OctetString bring value to our customers. We will also have a live question and answer session with key executives from our product development organization. Information about how to register for this webcast will be forwarded shortly. For more information about Oracle Identity Management, please visit oracle.com/identity.

We appreciate your continued support.

Thomas Kurian
Senior Vice President
Oracle Server Technologies
Oracle

Hasan Rizvi
Vice President
Oracle Security & Identity Management
Oracle

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