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INFORMATION INDEPTH NEWSLETTERS Executive Strategy Weekly Edition August 18, 2010

SPECIAL REPORT The Complete Stack John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems recently gave an Oracle systems strategy update: "From one company now, all the way up to including industry vertical applications, all the way through the enterprise business critical stack, and now the servers and storage under them, Oracle is now complete in technology offerings," Fowler said at the event. Watch Fowler's presentation, plus learn more about Oracle's stack advantage in this special report. More... TECH DIVE Extending Sun Ray Reach Sun Ray Software 5 improves on the previous version by adding Oracle Enterprise Linux as a platform (along with the existing Solaris, Windows, SLES and RHEL). It also adds support for upstream audio, smart card support for Oracle Virtual Desktop Clients and allows Sun Ray Clients to be used as a client with the VMware View 4 virtual desktop infrastructure product. More... NEWS How You Can Direct Oracle's Mobile Strategy "The best way to drive industry mobile apps out of Oracle is to provide your feedback to the project managers who are driving the associated enterprise applications. You have to push it through the vertical," says Jeff Duggins, a mobile software development manager at Oracle. More... OpenWorld 2010: Learn How to Simplify Finance Operation Complexity The Financial Management track at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2010 conference will address two top priorities of companies around the globe: How to simplify and standardize finance operations, and how to reduce costs associated with managing those operations. More... The Secrets to JD Edwards' Success Profit spoke to Lyle Ekdahl, group vice president of the product lines, on the five-year anniversary of Oracle's acquisition of JD Edwards. More... TWEET OF THE WEEK From @nytimesgreen What's the carbon footprint of … the internet? ^NK http://p2.to/Wnu WEBCAST How to Achieve Continuous Availability - Live Webcast on August 25, 2010 Critical IT systems don't just have a 40-hour work-week. Learn how Oracle GoldenGate can provide continuous access to your mission-critical systems and eliminate downtime during planned and unplanned outages. More... OPINION Adopting a Successful IT Strategy "The moment we think technology should adapt to the organization, things start to go wrong," says Frank Buytendijk, vice president of Oracle EPM. More... THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Five Ideas: Giving "I have already given hundreds of millions of dollars to medical research and education, and I will give billions more over time. Until now, I have done this giving quietly – because I have long believed that charitable giving is a personal and private matter. So why am I going public now? Warren Buffett personally asked me to write this letter because he said I would be 'setting an example' and 'influencing others' to give. I hope he's right." —Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Read more big ideas about Giving on Profit Online.

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