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January 12, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

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Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman leads this

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Accelerating Application

Now available, Oracle Solaris 11 Express

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Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic

Oracle’s Content Management and

reduce planned downtime by eliminating

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president, Oracle Hardware. “Through the Find out how you can manage all your data,

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