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Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
For purposes of this Annual Report, the terms “Oracle,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Oracle Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries. This
Annual Report on Form 10-K contains statements that are not historical in nature, are predictive in nature, or that depend upon or refer to future
events or conditions or otherwise contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include, among other things, statements regarding:
as well as other statements regarding our future operations, financial condition and prospects, and business strategies. Forward-looking
statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,”
“will,” “is designed to” and similar
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our expectation to continue to acquire companies, products, services and technologies;
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our intention that our direct sales force will sell proportionately more of our hardware systems products in the future;
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continued realization of gains or losses with respect to our foreign currency exposures;
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our expectation that our software and cloud business
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total revenues generally will continue to increase;
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our belief that software license updates and product support revenues and margins will grow;
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our expectation that our hardware business will have lower operating margins as a percentage of revenues than our software and cloud
business;
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our international operations providing a significant portion of our total revenues and expenses;
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our expectation to continue to make significant investments in research and development and related product opportunities, including
those related to hardware products and services;
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our expectation that future devaluations of the Venezuelan currency will not have a significant impact on our consolidated financial
statements;
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the sufficiency of our sources of funding for acquisitions or other matters;
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our expectation to continue paying comparable cash dividends on a quarterly basis;
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our belief that we have adequately provided for any reasonably foreseeable outcomes related to our tax audits and that any tax
settlement will not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position or results of operations;
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our belief that the outcome of certain legal proceedings and claims to which we are a party will not, individually or in the aggregate,
result in losses that are materially in excess of amounts already recognized, if any;
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our expectation to incur the majority of the remaining expenses pursuant to the Fiscal 2013 Oracle Restructuring Plan through the end of
fiscal 2015 and our expectation to improve efficiencies in our operations that will impact our Fiscal 2013 Oracle Restructuring Plan;
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our expectation that seasonal trends will continue in fiscal 2015;
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our expectation to continue to depend on third party manufacturers to build certain hardware systems products and third party logistics
providers to deliver our products;
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our expectation that to the extent customers renew support contracts or cloud software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service contracts,
we will recognize revenues for the full contracts
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values over the respective renewal periods;
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our ability to predict quarterly hardware systems revenues;
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the timing of customer orders and delays in our ability to manufacture or deliver a few large transactions substantially affecting the
amount of hardware systems products revenues, expenses and operating margins that we will report;