As Published In November/December 2006

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ORACLE WEBCASTS
Oracle OpenWorld
Watch all the keynotes from this year's conference, including those of Larry Ellison, Charles Phillips, and many other speakers.

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) for SAP Customers
Hear why so many SAP customers run their applications on Oracle RAC.

Automating Security Testing
Hear about Oracle's industry-leading best practices that make up the company's secure development process, and learn how you can automate security testing as part of your development process.

Managing Content in the Enterprise Database
Find out how to leverage your Oracle Database investment and skill set to manage unstructured content transparently in business processes and applications throughout the enterprise.

NEW PODCASTS
"Focus on Identity Management: Fine-Grained Authorization"
Frank Villavicencio, product manager for Oracle Identity Management, explains the new requirements that drive the need for fine-grained authorization in the middle tier as well as the standards shaping its future.

"Crawls and Keywords: Deploying Oracle Secure Enterprise Search on Oracle.com"
Mark Clark, Oracle director of IT and a key player in Oracle.com's deployment of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, shares best practices for installing, configuring, customizing, and optimizing the product.

"The Benefits of Oracle's Strategy of Applications Unlimited"
Jesper Andersen, Oracle's senior vice president of applications strategy, discusses Applications Unlimited, Oracle's plan to continue providing ongoing enhancements to current Oracle Applications beyond the delivery of Oracle Fusion Applications.

"The Benefits of Oracle's Reporting Tool, XML Publisher"
Learn about Oracle XML Publisher with Mike Tobin, IT manager, Oracle Applications Development and Architecture for Qualcomm, and Tim Dexter, Oracle XML Publisher group product manager.

ORACLE UNIVERSITY
11i Extend Oracle Applications: Customizing OA Framework Applications
(Search keywords: 11i Extend Oracle Applications)
This four-day course focuses on the skills needed by developers and consultants who want to make changes to existing Oracle Applications Framework pages. Because Oracle Applications Framework supports several types of development, this course focuses on changes to existing pages along with the deployment skills needed to deploy any sort of Oracle Application Framework page or application.

Oracle Database 10g: RAC for Administrators
(Search keywords: Oracle Database 10g RAC)
This five-day course offers students an introduction to Oracle Database 10g Release 2 for Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Students learn how to configure and administer a database for use with Oracle RAC. The course also explains how to set up and use Automatic Storage Management in an Oracle RAC environment. Lectures are reinforced by hands-on practice designed to walk students through Oracle RAC administration.

ORACLE ON DEMAND
Austin Data Center
Take a video tour of Oracle's award-winning Austin Data Center, where information technology uses a utility model to help customers achieve better business results.

Customers Find Business Value and ROI with Oracle On Demand
An IDC analyst and Oracle On Demand customers discuss the benefits of software as a service.

NEW RESOURCE CENTERS
Welcome Center
New to Oracle? The Welcome Center helps new Oracle customers get started in the right direction, with links to contacts and information on support, training, partners, customer programs, user groups, and more.

Oracle Identity Management Resource Library
Implementing Oracle Identity Management? Find business white papers, technical white papers, analyst reports, internet seminars, and much more.

KNOW YOUR OPTIONS
Did you know that Oracle offers a wide range of options—such as Oracle Content Database and Oracle Spatial—to extend the power of Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition? These options allow you to meet specific requirements in the areas of performance and availability, security and compliance, data warehousing, and manageability.