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Strong Authentication and ID Management: Security Best Practices Recommendations
Jonathan Penn, Forrester Research vice president and research director with a focus on security and risk management, discusses how strong authentication and identity management work together to provide end-to-end enterprise security.

The Roadmap to Fusion: Get Prepared and Trained Today
Satyajit Ranganathan of Oracle University discusses how customers can prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware through Oracle University courses.

Applications Unlimited: 5 New Releases
Oracle executives discuss Oracle's five new Oracle Applications product releases and Oracle's strategy to protect, extend, and evolve customers' software investments.

HR Driven Identity Management
Mike Neuenschwander, vice president and research director, Burton Group, and members of Oracle's identity management team discuss identity management business drivers and integrating identity management with human resources applications.

Oracle University
Oracle Database 10g: Managing Oracle on Linux for DBAs
(Search keyword: Linux)
This two-day course provides DBAs the training required to successfully deploy Oracle Database 10g on Oracle Enterprise Linux. Students will learn how to configure the Linux operating system for optimal performance with an Oracle database. They will then install Oracle Database 10g on Linux.

Core Consultant Course (Siebel 7.7)
(Search keyword: Core Consultant)
This 15-day workshop provides participants with an understanding of and practice in the installation, data manipulation, server administration, application configuration, business process automation, and support for mobile client tasks.

Oracle On Demand
Critical Patch Update Implementation Best Practices
DBAs and IT managers responsible for Oracle Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) won't want to miss this white paper, which describes best practices for implementation. It provides general information about CPUs; a flow diagram of CPU implementation; and details on planning, testing, and deploying CPUs and how to optimize the process. Many of the recommendations discussed in this white paper are the outcome of Oracle's experience of implementing CPUs through Oracle On Demand, which implements CPUs for hundreds of its hosted customers in a matter of days after the CPU is released.

New Podcasts
Oracle Application Express and the User Experience: The Rich Get Richer
Developers from Oracle partner Paetec reveal some of their techniques for putting rich user interfaces on Oracle Application Express applications.

Meet the Oracle Linux Kernel Experts: Zach Brown
Zach Brown, principal software developer on Oracle's Linux kernel team, discusses his work on asynchronous I/O and Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS).

Focus on Data Warehousing Exclusive: The Series Overview
Robert Stackowiak, vice president of business intelligence at Oracle, provides an inside view of Oracle's development efforts as well as its value proposition for administrators, architects, and end users.

Security's Up
Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson talks up the challenges of communicating about IT security, security patching strategies, and surfing with sea life.