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(g) “Employee” means any person, including an officer, who is customarily employed for more than twenty (20) hours per week and more than five
(5) months in a calendar year by the Company. In the case of individuals who perform services for the Company in jurisdictions in which local law
prohibits the Company from discriminating in its granting of benefits on the basis of number of hours worked, the determination of who is an
employee shall be made without regard to the number of hours worked.
(h) “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(i) “Exercise Date” means the last day of each Offering Period of the Plan.
(j) “New Exercise Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 18 hereof.
(k) “1987 Plan” means Oracle’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan (1987), as amended.
(m) “Offering Date” means the first day of each Offering Period of the Plan.
(n) “Offering Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 4 hereof.
(o) “Oracle” means Oracle Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
(p) “Participating Affiliate” means any Affiliate designated from time to time by the Board whose employees are eligible to participate in the Plan for
purposes of the grant of options that do not qualify under Section 423 of the Code pursuant to rules, procedures or sub-plans adopted by the Board
designed to achieve desired tax or other objectives in particular locations outside the United States.
(q) “Participating Subsidiaries” means any Subsidiary which has not been excluded by the Board in its sole discretion as eligible to participate in the
Plan.
(r) “Plan” means this Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
(s) “Reserves” has the meaning set forth in Section 18 hereof.
(t) “Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act, or any successor provision.
(u) “Section 16(b)” means Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision.
(v) “Subsidiary” means any corporation (other than Oracle) in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with Oracle if, at the time of granting
options under the Plan, each of the corporations (other than the last corporation) in the unbroken chain owns stock possessing 50% or more of the
total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain.
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Source: ORACLE CORP, 10-K, July 01, 2010 Powered by Morningstar® Document Research