Special Users Group Programs at Oracle OpenWorld
Programs include: JD Edwards Program, Hyperion Program, Agile PLM Program, and other Users Group Programs you won't want to miss! Register today.

Oracle Announces Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2007 Keynote Lineup
Keynote Series headlined by industry leaders from AMD, Dell, HP, Intel, Sun and Oracle

Oracle Buys Interlace Systems
Interlace Systems is a provider of strategic operational planning software and a key part of the enterprise performance management (EPM) segment. Interlace Systems software helps organizations, quickly and collaboratively, combine functional processes to address strategic operational planning needs.

Oracle Proposal To Acquire BEA Systems Expires
On October 9th, Oracle proposed to acquire BEA for $17 per share. That offer expired October 28th.

Oracle Donates $1 Million To JA Worldwide (Junior Achievement)
JA Worldwide announced that Oracle has awarded a $1 million Oracle Commitment Grant in support of the organization's innovative JA Titan, a web-based business competition for teens.

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• Getting Coherence - Free Data Grid Webinar
  (Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. EDT / GMT - 04:00, New York)
  This webinar is recommended for developers, development managers, and architects who plan to use Oracle Coherence, providing them with a hands-on, in-depth review of all of Oracle Coherence Data Grid capabilities, and clarifying when and how each of the different caching options and features should be used. Register today!
• ECM Profiles Online Seminars (November 8, 2007 at Noon ET)
  Don't miss online events focused on content management customer implementations. Attend ECM Profiles online seminar, hosted by AIIM and presented by Oracle customers and learn from these real world implementations. November 8th: Oracle customer, A.T. Kearney, presents its secure search solutiont, “Securing IP While Empowering Users.” More
• Oracle OpenWorld (November 11-15, 2007)
  Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA More
• Oracle Fusion Middleware World Tour
  Gain insight into Oracle’s unique middleware strategy, differentiation, and relevance to today’s IT projects and business applications development. Find a city near you and register for this free event.
  (US/Canada) - Ottawa: November 20, Montreal: November 21, Edmonton: November 28, Toronto: November 29, Milwaukee: December 7.
  (EMEA) - Brussels: November 6, Lisbon: November 6, Budapest: November 13, Athens: November 14, Vienna: November 28. More
• Free Workshops: Oracle Technology Network Developer Day
  (December 10, 2007) Get trained on the latest SOA and Java EE technologies in an interactive, classroom setting staffed by Oracle experts. Attendees of this event will receive free software and be eligible to win Oracle prizes! More
• Oracle Webcast - "The Trust Factor: Secure Enterprise Search for High-Value Content"
  Listen on demand to The Gilbane Group and Oracle discuss how Secure Enterprise search can connect disparate resources and integrate your business. More
• Web 2.0 in the Enterprise—Separating Myths from the New Realities of Collaborative Business Processes
  Listen on demand to the latest thinking on how Web 2.0 technologies can work for the modern enterprise, and how to create Web 2.0-enabled business processes that leverage your existing IT systems and create a richer user experience. More
• Oracle Develop: The Premier Conference for Developers
  Don't miss it. Advance your career with Oracle and choose from over 40 sessions of expert-led, in-depth technical sessions, hands-on labs, advanced how-tos across 4 technology tracks. More

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Podcasts (Shows: AppCasts, TechCasts and Oracle Fusion Middleware Radio):

Oracle Podcast Center

Oracle TechCasts are online audio interviews with Oracle technology experts about the latest products and technologies for developers and DBAs.

Recent TechCasts

• Focus on Embedded Technologies: Embedded Oracle
  Mike Olson, Oracle VP of Embedded Technologies, overviews the multitude of embedded technology options now available to customers and partners, as well as appropriate use cases. Listen
• Focus on Embedded Technologies: The In-Memory Database Explained
  Mike Olson, Oracle VP of Embedded Technologies, describes the architecture and functionality of the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, a unique solution for extremely fast and predictable application performance. Listen

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Oracle AppCasts are on demand online audio interviews with Oracle customers, partners, product and industry experts.

Recent AppCasts

• JD Edwards World 9.1 Release Update
  Listen to John Schiff, Vice President and General Manager, JD Edwards World, discuss the 9.1 customer uptake, release updates, as well as a preview into what's upcoming. Listen
• Siebel Applications at Oracle OpenWorld 2007
  Listen to Mike Betzer, Oracle Vice President of Product Management, highlight key sessions, highlights, and other opportunities for customers to learn about Siebel Applications at Oracle OpenWorld 2007. Listen
• E-Business Suite at Oracle OpenWorld 2007
  Listen to Annette Melatti, Sr. Director in Applications Marketing for E-Business Suite, preview some of the key sessions, improved attendee tools, and, most importantly, the highlights for E-Business Suite at OracleOpenWorld 2007. Listen
• Oracle Applications in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry
  Listen to Greg Jones, Vice President, Applications Development discuss key issues impacting the Healthcare industry today, Oracle's plans in this area, and how Oracle Applications are helping Healthcare customers. Listen
• Preview of PeopleSoft's Presence at Open World 2007
  Doris Wong, Vice President and General Manager, PeopleSoft Enterprise highlights some key PeopleSoft product sessions and other opportunities for PeopleSoft customers to learn more about their products at Oracle OpenWorld 2007. Listen

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Oracle E-Business Suite AppCasts | E-Business Suite Advisory Webcasts (Requires Login) | PeopleSoft Enterprise AppCasts | Siebel AppCasts | JD Edwards EnterpriseOne AppCasts |
JD Edwards World AppCasts | Services AppCasts

Services
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- Support
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- Financing

Applications

Oracle E-Business Suite:

• E-Business Suite at Oracle OpenWorld 2007
  Listen to Annette Melatti, Sr. Director in Applications Marketing for E-Business Suite, preview some of the key sessions, improved attendee tools, and, most importantly, the highlights for E-Business Suite at Open World 2007. Listen

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PeopleSoft Enterprise:

• Preview of PeopleSoft's Presence at Open World 2007
  Doris Wong, Vice President and General Manager, PeopleSoft Enterprise highlights some key PeopleSoft product sessions and other opportunities for PeopleSoft customers to learn more about their products at Oracle OpenWorld 2007. Listen
• PeopleSoft Customer Gives User Perspective and the Benefits of Joining a Regional User Group
  Tim Johnson, Portal and Web Systems Administrator in the Internet Services Department of Herff Jones, Inc. and the Ohio PeopleSoft JD Edwards Regional User Group President, discusses how pleased he is that PeopleSoft releases are continuing thanks to Applications Unlimited, and the benefits Quest can offer as a communication tool between customers and Oracle. Listen
  
  PeopleSoft Enterprise AppCasts | Advisor Webcasts (Requires MetaLink Login)

Siebel:

• Siebel Applications at Oracle OpenWorld 2007
  Listen to Mike Betzer, Oracle Vice President of Product Management, highlight key sessions, highlights, and other opportunities for customers to learn about Siebel Applications at Oracle OpenWorld 2007. Listen
• Cisco WebEx and Oracle Launch Collaborative CRM Solution
  On-demand collaboration applications and services leader WebEx, now part of Cisco, and Oracle, will offer Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand Service, an award-winning customer relationship management (CRM) application service, through the WebEx Connect application ecosystem. More
• Oracle Demonstrates Strong Global Customer Momentum with Latest Release of Oracle’s Siebel CRM 8
  Over 41 percent of the current Siebel CRM install base are downloading Siebel CRM 8 since January 2007. Leading organizations anticipate increased revenue and performance through the adoption of Siebel 8. Siebel 8 enables customer-driven business transformation with real-time insight at the moment of customer interaction, while helping to accelerate revenue growth through better-informed decisions. More
• Oracle Introduces Siebel Contact Center Integration Pack for Oracle Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS)
  The AERS is a solution designed to streamline the capture, reporting and management of adverse events and product complaints while improving data integrity. The new integration pack is being delivered as part of Oracle Application Integration Architecture, a comprehensive set of products that delivers integrated business processes across Oracle, third-party and custom applications. More
• Siebel Web Series Session Recordings Now Available
  The OAUG and Oracle recently offered free educational sessions to the Siebel community via the Siebel Web Series, online sessions conducted by Oracle and OAUG partners. Topics included Siebel 8.0 Upgrading Training, Siebel CRM On Demand for PeopleSoft ERP Users, and Best Practices for Performance and Scalability. Complete recordings of these sessions are now available on the OAUG Web site.More

Siebel AppCasts

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne:

• Oracle Recognized for Offering High Vertical Specialization Capabilities for Small and Medium Businesses by Leading Independent Research Firm
  Forrester Research recognized Oracle Applications as providing high vertical specialization capabilities for small and medium businesses. In particular, Oracle received high marks for providing vertical specialization capabilities within the public sector, financial services, utilities/telecom and retail/wholesale industries. Press Release

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne AppCasts | Advisor Webcasts (Requires Customer Connection Login)

JD Edwards World:

• JD Edwards World 9.1 Release Update
  Listen to John Schiff, Vice President and General Manager, JD Edwards World, discuss the 9.1 customer uptake, release updates, as well as a preview into what's upcoming. Listen
• Have Questions about JD Edwards World?
  For answers to your questions about JD Edwards World products, support, or training, please e-mail: worldinfo_us@oracle.com.

JD Edwards World AppCasts | Advisor Webcasts (Requires Customer Connection Login)

Oracle On Demand:

• Cisco WebEx and Oracle Launch Collaborative CRM Solution
  On demand collaboration applications and services leader WebEx, now part of Cisco, and Oracle, will offer Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand Service, an award-winning customer relationship management (CRM) application service, through the WebEx Connect application ecosystem. More
• Get A Glimpse of Oracle's "Best-Kept Secret" and Discover the Future of IT!
  Join Oracle On Demand SVP Mike Beck for a tour of Oracle's Austin Data Center and download the free Forrester white paper: IT Operations and Systems Management: The Next Five Years. More
• Turn up the Information Business Power - Watch this FREE On Demand Webcast
  See how Oracle On Demand addresses your TCO, ROI and Business Impact of your IT investment. More

Technology

Oracle Database:

• Oracle Database 11g Generally Available on Microsoft Windows Platform
  "Oracle is committed to providing choice, and we continue to deliver on that promise with the release of Oracle Database 11g on Windows," said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Oracle. "Optimized for Windows, Oracle Database 11g helps growing businesses address their increasing data management demands with unrivaled price/performance and scalability." More
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Sets World Record Single Node Result
  Oracle Application Server 10g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database, running on a Rackable Systems rack-mount server set a world record single node result for x86 based systems with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark, outperforming a recent BEA result on a similar configuration). More
• Oracle Webcast - "The Trust Factor: Secure Enterprise Search for High-Value Content"
  Listen on demand to The Gilbane Group joined with Oracle discuss how Secure Enterprise search can connect disparate resources and integrate your business. Learn from experts what it takes to get better results. More
• Download Oracle Database 11g for Windows Download | More

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Oracle Fusion Middleware:

• Getting Coherence - Free Data Grid Webinar
  Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 11:00 a.m. EDT (GMT -04:00, New York)
  This webinar is recommended for developers, development managers, and architects who plan to use Oracle Coherence, providing them with a hands-on, in-depth review of all of Oracle Coherence Data Grid capabilities, and clarifying when and how each of the different caching options and features should be used. Register today!
• Oracle Fusion Middleware World Tour
  Gain insight into Oracle’s unique middleware strategy, differentiation, and relevance to today’s IT projects and business applications development. Find a city near you and register for this free event. (US/Canada) -Ottawa: November 20, Montreal: November 21, Edmonton: November 28, Toronto: November 29, Milwaukee: December 7.
  (EMEA) Brussels: November 6, Lisbon: November 6, Budapest: November 13, Athens: November 14, Vienna: November 28. More
• New Security Product Now Available: Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g
  Now generally availability, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g is a comprehensive solution designed to prevent online identity theft and fraud. More
• Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Universal Records Management 10g Release 3
  Oracle Universal Records Management 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, includes new features for mitigating the cost and risk associated with legal discovery and new adapters for out-of-the-box integration with Oracle and third-party applications. More
• Oracle Honored with a Tech Innovator Award in the Business Enterprise Category by CMP Channel’s VARBusiness
  Oracle received a CMP Channel VARBusiness 2007 Tech Innovator award in the Business Enterprise category for the Oracle SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. The fifth annual Tech Innovators Awards celebrate the most innovative products, people and personalities in the industry and highlight emerging products and technologies currently sold through the IT Channel. More
• FREE CIO Magazine Applications Strategy Guide
  Get your FREE CIO Magazine Applications Strategy Guide, along with other resources, including a FREE online SOA assessment, white papers and interactive tools and case-studies and Podcast featuring executive insight. Find out why leading organizations are changing the way they think about their business, strategic applications, and going-forward IT strategies. More
• Oracle Named Worldwide Vendor Share Leader in Business Analytics Software by IDC
  In its report, "Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2007-2011 Forecast Update and 2006 Vendor Shares," IDC determined that Oracle was the business analytics industry leader with $2.7 billion in software revenue for 2006, and 14.2 percent vendor share -- more than one and a half times the share of its nearest competitor at 8.2 percent. More | Report
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Sets World Record Single Node Result
  Oracle Application Server 10g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database, running on a Rackable Systems® rack-mount server set a world record single node result for x86 based systems with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark, outperforming a recent BEA result on a similar configuration. More
• Oracle Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner Report, "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007
  The report evaluates vendors for their ability to execute and completeness of vision. More | Report

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Oracle Enterprise Management:

• See Oracle Enterprise Manager at Oracle OpenWorld 2007
  Experience the most extensive Enterprise Manager Hands-on Lab yet! Try out the industry's first and most comprehensive management software with unique top-down application management approach. More
• ECM Profiles Online Seminars (November 8, 2007 at Noon ET)
  Don't miss online events focused on content management customer implementations. Attend an ECM Profiles online seminar, hosted by AIIM and presented by Oracle customers. Learn from these real world implementations. November 8 features Oracle customer, A.T. Kearney present its secure search solution during online Web event, “Securing IP While Empowering Users.” More
• Complimentary BPM Whitepaper
  Oracle's innovative approach to business process management (BPM) promotes closed-loop business optimization facilitating an iterative business process development effort allowing for continuous collaboration between business managers' process models and IT's implementation details. Register now and receive your copy of Oracle Empowers Business Process Excellence through Business and IT Collaboration. More
• Get SOA Expertise On Demand
  Watch an incredible lineup of leading companies and industry experts share their experiences designing and implementing SOA solutions. Find out why these organizations chose an SOA approach, how they secured management approval and addressed the challenges and lessons learned during implementation. View the Webcast!
• Oracle Achieves Key Integration Milestones and Delivers Enhancements for Comprehensive, Hot-Pluggable Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System
  Following its acquisition of Hyperion in June 2007, Oracle updated its roadmap for delivering the industry's most comprehensive and integrated EPM System. Oracle has since announced key integration milestones and enhancements for its EPM System, which is designed to support critical management processes, including setting goals, formulating plans, monitoring performance, analyzing variances and exceptions, reporting to stakeholders, aligning and adjusting actuals with plans. More
• Oracle Recognized as a Leader in Business Performance Solutions by Forrester
  In the report, "The Forrester Wave: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2007," Forrester Vice President Paul Hamerman, states, Oracle's "acquisition of Hyperion Solutions in April 2007 moved it to the front of the pack." Hamerman highlights Oracle's "particularly strong finance offerings (e.g.: planning, financial management and strategic finance) and financial data quality tools." He also notes, "There is substantial breadth in the offering beyond finance including the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications based on Siebel analytics technology." More | Report
• Oracle Positioned in Leader's Quadrant in Data Warehouse DBMS Magic Quadrant
  Oracle has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2007 report. Gartner defines leaders as performing well today, having a clear vision of market direction and actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. More | Report
• Oracle Unbreakable Linux
  Get your free two-disc pack and discover how your enterprise can realize the full potential of Linux with Oracle Unbreakable Linux. More
• See How To Start Saving with Oracle Unbreakable Linux Today
  Watch a free analyst webcast and see how much your organization can benefit from Oracle Unbreakable Linux. More
• Drive Better Results with Top-Down Application Management
  Get your free Oracle Enterprise Manager DVD kit, containing database, middleware, applications and other typical data center components. Oracle Enterprise Manager helps organizations increase IT insight and reduce resolution times with integrated management. More
• Register Now for a Free, On Demand Webcast: The Future of Enterprise Performance Management
  Learn how Oracle is integrating Hyperion applications with its BI technology, delivering the industry’s first end-to-end system for enterprise performance management. Register Now!
  

Oracle Tools:

• Free Workshops: Oracle Technology Network Developer Day
  (December 10, 2007) Get trained up on the latest SOA and Java EE technologies in an interactive, classroom setting staffed by Oracle experts. Attendees of this event will receive free software and be eligible to win prizes. More
• Oracle Contributes Breakthrough PHP Code To Open Source Community
  Continuing to deliver on its long-standing commitment to the Open Source community, Oracle announced the contribution and a preview release of an enhanced Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) database driver for PHP. This helps bring breakthrough scalability to PHP applications, further enhancing PHP as a viable development environment for mission-critical applications. More
• Upgrade Guide: Moving to Oracle RAC 11g on Oracle Enterprise Linux
  Learn how to upgrade Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10g Release 2 to Oracle RAC 11g on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5, step by step. More
• Oracle Releases OCI8 1.3.0 Beta; Donates It to Community
  This re-written OCI8 database driver for PHP, now available under the PHP License, supports Oracle Database 11g features such as connection pooling and fast application notification. More
• Integrating the Oracle Designer Legacy Table API with Oracle JDeveloper 11g ADF Business Components
  Learn how to give your Designer-based systems new life by integrating the Oracle Designer Table API with Oracle JDeveloper. More

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Services

Services Appscasts

Oracle Support:

• Get up to 50% Faster Problem Response with Oracle Priority Service
  Listen to a podcast and download a free customer success case study. More

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Oracle Consulting: