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Table of Contents
Mobile Computing
Among its other middleware offerings, Oracle provides a wide range of software for mobile computing to address the development needs of
businesses that are increasingly focused on delivering mobile device applications to their customers. For example, Oracle Mobile Platform
enables developers to build and extend enterprise applications for popular mobile devices from a single code base. Oracle Mobile Platform
supports access to native device services, enables offline applications and is designed to protect enterprise investments from future technology
shifts. Oracle Mobile Security offers comprehensive mobile identity and application management for provisioning of trusted access. Oracle
Business Intelligence Mobile provides business intelligence functionality, from interactive dashboards to location intelligence, while enabling
users to initiate business processes from a mobile device.
Java
Java is the computer industry’s most widely-used software development language and is viewed as a global standard. The Java programming
language and platform together represent one of the most popular and powerful development environments in the world, one that is used by
millions of developers globally to develop business applications. Oracle Fusion Middleware software products and certain of our Oracle
Applications are built using our Java technology platform, which we believe is a key advantage for our business.
Java is designed to enable developers to write software on a single platform and run it on many other different platforms, independent of
operating system and hardware architecture. Java has been adopted by both independent software vendors (ISV) that have built their products on
Java and by enterprise organizations building custom applications or consuming Java-based ISV products.
Software License Updates and Product Support
We seek to protect and enhance our customers’ current investments in Oracle application and platform technologies by offering proactive and
personalized support services, including Oracle Lifetime Support and product enhancements and upgrades. Software license updates provide
customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades and maintenance releases and patches released during the term of the support
period. Product support includes internet and telephone access to technical support personnel located in our global support centers, as well as
internet access to technical content through “My Oracle Support”.
Software license updates and product support contracts are generally priced as
a percentage of the net new software license fees. Substantially all of our customers purchase software license updates and product support
contracts when they acquire new software licenses and renew their software license updates and product support contracts annually.
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Oracle Business Process Management Suite software products that are designed to enable businesses and IT professionals to design,
implement, automate and evolve business processes and workflows within and across organizations;
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Oracle WebCenter software products, a complete set of web experience management, portals, content management and social networks
software, designed to help people work together more efficiently through contextual collaboration tools that optimize connections
between people, information and applications and to ensure users have access to the right information in the context of the business
process in which they are engaged;
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Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, a comprehensive set of analytic software products designed to provide customers with the
information they need to make better business decisions;
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Oracle Identity Management software, which is designed to enable customers to manage internal and external users, to secure corporate
information from potential software threats and to streamline compliance initiatives while lowering the total cost of their security and
compliance initiatives; and
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Development Tools for application development, database development and business intelligence, including Oracle JDeveloper, an
integrated software environment designed to facilitate rapid development of applications using Oracle Fusion Middleware and popular
open source technologies.