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Core to Your Business By David A. Kelly IT is at the core of your business, but it's far too complex—a complexity caused by years of company mergers, best-of-breed buying approaches, product upgrades, and so on. To tackle this problem, Oracle is introducing a new way of thinking about the IT infrastructure, with products that bring simplicity to the core of your business. Technology on Demand—A New Frontier By David Baum The new generation of hosted services from Oracle provides something unheard of in outsourcing: flexibility. Oracle breaks new ground with on-demand technology, applications, and services.

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From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. A New Architecture By Jeff Spicer Oracle offers a new architecture for taming the complex beast in your data center. AT ORACLE Events Find out about current and upcoming industry events. OTN Community Bulletin Learn what's happening with Oracle's most dynamic online community. Oracle News New features from Oracle raise performance of massive data warehouses. Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Vendor News VERITAS, Sierra Atlantic, and A2i plus Book Beat Partner News Dell, Oracle On Demand, Red Flag Software, Miracle Linux, and Oracle Information Architecture Peer-to-Peer Gopi Kolluru, Rab Nawaz, and John Hollings

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT Add Storage, Not Projects By Jonathan Gennick Automatic storage management lets DBAs do their jobs and keep their weekends.

PL/SQL Self-Managing PL/SQL By Steven Feuerstein Follow self-managing databases with self-managing PL/SQL. AVAILABILITY Flash Back to a Better Time By Arup Nanda Restore a table or an entire database to a point in the past, using a simple SQL statement. HTML DB Serving HTML DB Reports By Sergio Leunissen Use Oracle HTML DB to deliver reports that are user-customizable and secure. TALKING TUNING A Closer Look at ADDM By Kim Floss New diagnostics engine in Oracle 10g helps detect and diagnose performance problems. ASK TOM On Sorts, Selecting, and Selectivity By Tom Kyte Our technologist looks at sorting, cursors, architecting, selecting, and extracting. INSIDE OCP Oracle Certified Master, Part II By Gerry Jurrens Preparing for the two-day certification test

ORACLE DEVELOPER WEB SERVICES Managing Web Services By Mike Lehmann Take advantage of SOAP on the wire. TRENDS Monitor, Control, and Extend with JMX By Cameron O'Rourke Improve your applications with Java Management Extensions. STRUTS Reuse Tiles and Simplify UI By James Holmes Simplify and enhance Struts JSP development with Tiles.