Earlier today, Oracle announced the addition of two best-in-class product solutions to our industry-leading Oracle Identity Management solution. We want to take this opportunity to inform you, our customers and partners, about these important additions to our product suite and the benefits we expect these new products to offer you.

Oracle has acquired Thor Technologies to provide an enterprise-wide user provisioning solution to our customers. Today, many organizations manage security privileges for thousands of users across dozens of mission critical information systems and enterprise applications. Thor Technologies' user provisioning solution automates the process of creating, monitoring, and managing users, their accounts, and the associated security privileges in these systems. It can help your customers lower the cost of user and password administration within their organizations, can protect them against security vulnerabilities, and can improve their ability to audit and track compliance with regulatory and organization-wide security policies.

Oracle has also acquired OctetString to provide a Virtual Directory solution to our customers. Today, most organizations manage user profile information in a variety of different stores—LDAP directories, databases, X.500 repositories, and other systems. Each of these systems may in turn have a partial definition of a specific user's profile. OctetString's Virtual Directory solution provides the ability to dynamically create a single point of administration for user profiles across these systems. It can also help your customers lower the cost of security administration and protect them against security vulnerabilities.

In addition to these acquisitions, our product development organization has been working actively to make our Oracle Identity Management solution the best in the industry. We are taking an application-centric approach, building identity management functions into enterprise applications and business processes and delivering this capability as part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle's Identity Management product offering, the broadest in the industry, now includes access control/single sign on, identity administration, identity federation, user provisioning, directory and virtual directory services, web services security and management, and database security solutions. Over the summer, we have also completed certifying these solutions with Oracle Database 10g, Fusion Middleware 10g, E-Business Suite 11.5.X, PeopleSoft 8.47, and JD Edwards 8.95. Moreover, all these solutions work in "real world" environments, supporting a broad array of heterogeneous systems, packaged applications, and industry standards.

For partners, we understand that Identity Management software is mission-critical for your customers. The combination of Thor's leading user provisioning and OctetString's innovative virtual directory technology with our identity management suite will deliver a worldclass identity management solution that improves security and enhances compliance. We have made and continue to make significant investments in product development to build the best products, to train our support and service delivery organizations, and to enable partners to bring these solutions to our customers. We are committed to ensuring the highest level of support for your customers' software investments, continuity of service, accelerated innovation, and ultimately, the implementation of solutions that are less complex and easier to maintain. In addition, these acquisitions open doors to incremental growth opportunities for you through additional products, tools and services. With the complementary talents of our partner bases and breadth of our combined products, we will become more effective and competitive in the delivery of identity management solutions to satisfy customer requirements.

Please join us on December 6 at 8 a.m. (PST) for an Oracle Identity Management Roadmap Update webcast to hear the latest information about our overall identity management roadmap and how the addition of Thor and OctetString bring value to our customers and partners. We will also have a live question and answer session with key executives from our product development organization. Information about how to register for this webcast will be forwarded shortly. For more information on Oracle Identity Management, please visit oracle.com/identity.

We encourage you to continue to use your existing contacts for support, professional services, and sales to address any ongoing needs you or your customers may have. We appreciate your continued support.

Doug Kennedy
Vice President
Worldwide Alliances & Channels
Oracle

The above is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into a contract.