Issue 8 | April - May 2005
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Forms Migration Workshop
Hotel Meridien, Porto
April 5-7 2005

Client/Server Forms Migration
Oracle Offices, Warsaw
Apr 12-14 2005

ISV Roadshow
Hotel Eurobuilding, Madrid
April 13 2005

Migrating J2EE to Oracle AS 10g
Oracle Offices, Warsaw
Apr 26-28 2005

Oracle Applications Day
Oracle Offices, Midrand, South Africa
May 4 2005

Open Your Windows
Oracle Offices, Oslo
Early May (date TBC)

WWDC 2005
Moscone Center, San Francisco
June 6-10 2005


OPN Days Series 2005 Come and learn what partnering with Oracle can do for your business



Events

Forms Migration Workshop
Hotel Meridien, Porto
April 5-7 2005

A three-day workshop for Portuguese ISVs to migrate your Oracle Client/Server Forms-based applications to a Web environment with Oracle Application Server 10g. Hosted by Oracle Product Technology Services, this is a great opportunity for you to conduct the migration of your application with assistance from Oracle's foremost technology experts.

For more information and to register, contact claudia.f.sampedro@oracle.com


Forms Migration Workshop
Oracle Offices, Warsaw, Poland
Apr 12-14 2005

A three-day workshop for Polish ISVs to migrate your Oracle Client/Server Forms-based applications to a Web environment with Oracle Application Server 10g. Hosted by Oracle Product Technology Services, this is a great opportunity for you to conduct the migration of your application with assistance from Oracle's foremost technology experts.

For more information and to register, contact wojciech.karwowski@oracle.com


ISV Roadshow
Hotel Eurobuilding, Madrid
Apr 13 2005

An introduction to the Oracle 10g technology platform for Spanish ISVs. Learn about the powerful features and benefits of Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g, and find out how you can migrate to Oracle rapidly and easily.

For more information, and to register, contact christian.peter@oracle.com


Migrating J2EE to Oracle AS 10g
Oracle Offices, Warsaw, Poland
Apr 26-28 2005

A three-day workshop for Polish ISVs to migrate your J2EE-based applications to the award-winning Oracle Application Server 10g environment. Hosted by Oracle Product Technology Services, this is a great opportunity for you to conduct the migration of your application with assistance from Oracle's foremost technology experts.

For more information and to register, contact wojciech.karwowski@oracle.com


Oracle Applications Day
Oracle Offices, Midrand, South Africa
May 4 2005

Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiencies

As part of Oracle SA's ongoing commitment to increasing the awareness and growth of its partner community, we are again hosting an Oracle Applications Day at our office in Midrand:

Following last year's success, the format is once again that of an exhibition with stands, demonstrations, presentations and networking opportunities.

Customers who attend Oracle Applications Day in SA will:

  • Have ample opportunity to discuss how you can solve your most pressing pains immediately
  • Discover business process improvements from your peers
  • Examine how best practices are giving organisations a competitive advantage
  • Learn how to leverage your current business applications
  • Begin laying a foundation for the future of your business
  • Discover the rich world of Oracle Applications.

Registrations open on 15 March 2005. Go to www.oracle.com/start and type in the keyword zaappsday


Open Your Windows
Oracle Offices, Oslo, Norway
First week of May (exact date tbc)

An opportunity for ISVs with Microsoft Windows-based applications to learn more about the Oracle technology platform on Windows. See demonstrations of Oracle Database features, functions and capabilities in a Windows environment. Learn how the Oracle Database .NET drivers can enhance database development in MS Visual Studio, and find out how you can migrate your applications to the world-leading Oracle platform.

For more information and to register, contact: martin.korsrud@oracle.com


WWDC 2005
Moscone Center, San Francisco
June 6-10 2005

With extensive coverage of Tiger and other cutting-edge Apple technologies, WWDC is certain to be the most important developer event of the year. Get technical guidance from Apple's own engineers and technical experts with presentations providing in-depth coverage of development topics. Bring your laptop to the many hands-on sessions and labs to learn first-hand about Apple Engineering's opwn coding strategies and best practices for leveraging technologies like Spotlight, Core Image, Xgrid, Core Data, Quartz Composer and more.

For more information and to register, visit developer.apple.com/wwdc

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Oracle database increased its top-ranked market share and outpaced the competition in its growth last year, according to data from IDC.

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Oracle Database 10g now on Apple
World's leading database now available for Apple Mac OS X

Midmarket ISVs get business boost from Oracle
Oracle creates 5,000 leads for ISVs with new SMB initiative


RedScreen
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Top Billing
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South Africa
South Africa We talk to Bev Scott, ISV manager for South Africa, about how Oracle works with the South Africa ISV community


Progress to Oracle
migrating birds Let Oracle, Capgemini and Cornerstone help you migrate your solutions from Progress to Oracle


Oracle Application Server 10g Gains Ground
Oracle Application Server 10g IDC sees rapid uptake of Oracle’s fully-featured development, integration and deployment platform


Oracle Education Week Croatia
Zagreb 65 partners headed to Zagreb for a four-day training session in March


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