To celebrate the end of the year, we're running a competition, with a prize of an advanced PDA generously donated by Oracle Partner Fujitsu Siemens.

You could win a Pocket LOOX 720, a handheld device that enables you to work and play wherever you are. Featuring an integrated camera, Voice over IP and a brilliant VGA display, the Pocket LOOX 720 is ideal for professional and home users. Manage work and social diaries, have contact details close at hand, and email and access office files while on the move. With a choice of wireless technologies including Bluetooth and Wireless LAN, you'll never be out of touch. The Pocket LOOX 700 Series has won awards in Germany, Russia, Italy and Spain and this product is the top of the range.

To enter this competition, answer the following easy questions and send your answers by email to isvemea_de@oracle.com, together with your name, address and phone number. There's no need to guess - all the answers are in this newsletter.

Full terms and conditions (below) apply.

A. The most important thing for Hungarian ISVs is that...

1. They understand the Oracle value proposition
2. They know how to dance the czárdás
3. They make a mean Hungarian goulash

B. It's the job of Peter Hauk to...

1. Manage the working relationships with Hungarian ISVs
2. Play widdly-widdly music on the violin
3. Add paprika to the goulash

C. TRASSET is...

1. What you do to rubbiss
2. A piece of fabric stitched into underwear
3. A treasury and asset management system

D. The world's largest database is run on Oracle by:

1. Gadzooks!
2. Wowsers!
3. Yahoo!

E. Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE) is free of...

1. Caffeine
2. CFCs
3. Charge

F. Grid computing is good for...

1. Solving Sudoku puzzles
2. Working out the best way to eat hot potato waffles
3. Running a single Oracle database seamlessly across multiple applications and multiple low-cost server blades

G. Oracle Search is...

1. A prime-time reality TV talent show, whittling 30 budding prophets down to one true visionary
2. A file search feature offering deep granularity
3. A mountain rescue team guided by the ability of its members to see into the future

H. The Knowledge and Interest Index measures...

1. How educated and stimulating coffee-bar conversation is
2. The quality of financial institutions, based on staff training and return on savings invested
3. How much different European countries know about grid computing

I. A key challenge when introducing security programmes using face recognition is:

1. Bushy eyebrows
2. How to enrol millions of users quickly and effectively
3. What to do about ugly people

J. In Oracle's first fiscal quarter 2006, thousands of new SMEs adopted...

1. Oracle technology
2. A gorilla called Frank
3. A rather affected way of pronouncing the word ‘okay'

Terms and conditions

1.ELIGIBILITY
(i) No purchase is necessary to enter.
(ii) The competition is open solely to adults who are working at a company in the EMEA region aged 18 or over. Entries limited (save at Oracle's discretion) to one per person.
(iii) No employees of Oracle Corporation or its parent companies, subsidiaries, other affiliates, agents, advertising and promotion agencies, or such employees' immediate family members (parent, sibling or person residing in the same household) shall be eligible to win. Other restrictions as set out below may also apply.

2.HOW TO ENTER
(i) Participants will be eligible by sending an email to isvemea_de@oracle.com with the correct answers to the five questions detailed above, together with their name, address and phone number.
(ii)Participants must provide all requested information and, save at Oracle's discretion, will not be entered into the draw if they fail to do so. This information may be used by Oracle for marketing purposes, unless otherwise specified.
(iii) Oracle shall not be responsible for any phone, technical, network, electronic, computer, hardware or software failures of any kind, or for any misdirected, stolen, incomplete, garbled, or delayed Internet or e-mail computer transmissions, or for any lost, late, damaged, illegible, stolen, incomplete or misaddressed entries.

3.CLOSING DATE
The closing date for the prize draw shall be Friday 30 December 2005. All entries must be received by midnight on that day to be eligible for the draw.

4.SELECTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS
(i) The potential winners will be selected by Oracle in a random drawing conducted on or about Friday 13 January 2005. Oracle's decision shall be final on all matters relating to the draw. Potential winners do not need to be present at the drawing to win.
(ii) Potential winners will be notified by mail, e-mail or phone. (No notification will be made to other participants, but for the names of the official winners participants should email a request to isvemea_de@oracle.com)
(iii) Potential winners may be required to sign an Affirmation of Eligibility & Liability Release, which if required must be returned to and received by Oracle no later than 15 business days after it is provided in order for potential winners to receive their prize. (Failure to do so if required will void the participant's eligibility and an alternate potential winner will be selected by a random drawing.)

5.PRIZES
(i) Oracle will award one prize. First prize will be one Pocket LOOX 720.
(ii)To receive their prize, winners may need to sign the Affirmation referred to above, and follow relevant delivery and other directions provided by Oracle. The winner shall be responsible for all applicable taxes and any other expenses not specified in these rules. If Oracle is unable to locate a winner for the purposes of delivery, an alternate potential winner will be selected by a random drawing.
(iii) Oracle has the option, at its sole discretion, of substituting a prize of equal or greater value if for any reason, including scheduling, a prize become unavailable. Prizes cannot be transferred, substituted, or redeemed for cash value except as provided herein.

6.GENERAL
(i) By entering the draw all participants consent to the disclosure of their names to other participants who ask to be informed of the names of the winners (pursuant to rule 4(ii) above).
(ii)Participants agree to release Oracle, its parent company, subsidiaries and affiliates from any and all liability for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind caused by or arising from this prize draw or award of any prize.
(iii) These rules shall be governed by the laws of England and the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction. The draw offer shall be void where prohibited or otherwise restricted by law. Odds of winning are dependent upon the total number of entries received.

By entering the prize draw all participants agree to the above rules and the decisions of Oracle which shall be final in all respects. Draw operated by Oracle Corporation UK Limited ("Oracle"). Address: Oracle Parkway, Thames Valley Park, Reading RG6 1RA.