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This morning the Oracle keynote was by Oracle President, Charles Phillips.  His presentation ackowledged the obvious economic pressures that organizations are facing and the continuing need for value and the increasing transparency requirements (governance).

Phillips mentioned that Oracle has made 56 acquisitions in the past 5 1/2 years with Sun Microsystems being the 57th.

He then reviewed the Applications Unlimited program and how Oracle has delivered new releases for all Applications (Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Seibel).  As part of that he noted that R12 includes 18 new products, 2443 enhancements

Here is a brief list of the announcements he made during his presentation:

• The  general availability of E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.1.1.
• New stand-alone products that can be used with 11i and R12 (UPK, Mgmt Packs, Project Analytics, Site Hub, MDM).  These don’t require upgrades to the Applications.
• Oracle Extended Support for EBS 11i has been extended from November 10th to November 2011 and the 10% additional cost has been waived for the first year.
• Oracle Extended Support for the Database 10gR2 has been extended from July 2010 to July 2011.
• Sustaining support for EBS 11i Release 9 has been extended from June 2009 to June 2010.
• Oracle Business Intelligence Applications , Release 7.9.6, which includes new pre-built analytic Dashboards
• New release of the Application Integration Architecture (AIA), version 2.4
• New AIA Process Integration Packs (pre-built integrations between various applications like EBS, PeopleSoft, etc.)
• The ability of  Oracle Content Management (unstructured data such as scanned invoices/images) can now be associated with EBS to manage them.
• New version of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) – searching within the Enterprise data
• New version of Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Updated version of Oracle Beehive which is Oracle’s collaboration tool for providing a  single platform for messaging, collaboration, real-time, calendar, tasks, contacts, chat, conferencing, presence.  New capabilities focus on Team Collaboration and include capabilities for blogs, wiki, discussions, and tags.

For the details on the changes to product support for EBS 11i and the Oracle Database, you can find all of your FAQ answers here.

Lastly, Phillips spoke about the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server, a special purpose storage environment using commodity processors and Linux along with Oracle Parallel Query Database Software, that is intended to lower the amount of data transferred between the database and the applications.

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