Thank you for your interest in partnering with Oracle - you're in the right place for a successful and profitable future!

Growing numbers of ISVs are now recognising the benefits of partnering with Oracle, the provider of the world's leading open-standards technology platforms for small, mid-sized and large organisations. To underline this trend, we are now proud to be recruiting 1,500 ISVs per year in EMEA, and can now boast a total of 5,500 ISV partners across the region.

The results for the last fiscal year have exceeded all expectations, with new licence revenue growing by 32 per cent and more applications being developed in the ISV space than ever before.

Oracle represents an unbeatable value proposition for ISVs. We have continued to add functionality to our core Oracle Database 10g product set, and we have also seen excellent traction in Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications. We are now well on track to become the number one company in these arenas, matching our already dominant position in the database market.

'Partner Excellence' is one of our key business drivers, embodying predictability, consistency, openness and trust. But Oracle's commitment to our partner family must provide even more than that - it must help to deliver measurable improvements for our ISVs' businesses, creating genuine ROI, better margins and real impact. Your success is our success.

We now guarantee that Oracle will engage each and every employee to provide education on partnering and on partnering with ISVs in particular. We are extremely serious about this, and feel this is a vital differentiator between Oracle and all other technology companies.

There are currently some widespread changes taking place across the Oracle PartnerNetwork in EMEA, involving some major re-organisation, and key changes that will allow us to concentrate on addressing the needs of specific technology and application partners. We will tell you about this in the next issue of our newsletter.

In the meantime, we look forward to working with you and wish you every success for the future as an Oracle partner,

Best regards,