Dear Partners,

We would like to let you know that the October'13 issue of our Newsletter is now available.
The issue contains information on the following topics:

Oracle Open World Summary
Oracle Cloud:
Oracle Engineered Systems
Oracle Database and Middleware
Oracle Applications and Software as a Service
Oracle Industries
Oracle Partners and the "Internet of Things"
JavaOne News
MySQL News

Corporate News
Create Your HR Strategic Vision at Oracle HCM World
Oracle Database Protection Redefined
A Preview: Oracle Database Backup Logging Recovery Appliance
Oracle closed Tekelec acquisition
Congratulations to ORACLE TEAM USA!

Tech sectionARC M6
Oracle's SPARC M6
Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 - Oracle’s Most Scalable Engineered System
Oracle Multitenant on SPARC Servers and Oracle Solaris
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition: Plug into the Cloud
Oracle In-Memory Database Cache
Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance
New Benchmark-Results published (Sept. 2013)
Video Interview: Elasticity, the Biggest Challenge Facing Data Centers Today

Tech blog
Announcing New Sun Storage 2500-M2 Drives
SPARC Product Line Update
ZFS RAID Calculator v6
What ships with ODA X3-2?
Tech Article: Oracle Multitenant on SPARC Servers and Oracle Solaris
New release of Sun Rack II capacity calculator available
Announcing: Oracle Solaris Cluster Product Bulletin, September 2013

Learning & events
Planned TechCasts
Quarterly Partner Update
Live Webcast: Simplify and Accelerate Oracle Database deployment with Oracle VM Templates
Join us for OTN's Virtual Developer Day - Harnessing the Power of Oracle WebLogic and Oracle Coherence.
Learn from OOW 2013 what is going on in Virtualization

How to
Implementing Early Arriving Facts in ODI, Part I and Part II: Proof of Concept Overview
Multi-Factor Authentication in Oracle WebLogic
Using multi-factor authentication to protect web applications deployed on Oracle WebLogic.
If Virtualization Is Free, It Can't Be Any Good—Right?

Looking beyond System/HW
SOA and User Interfaces
Overcoming the challenges to developing user interfaces in a service oriented

References
Vodafone Romania Improves Business Agility and Customer Satisfaction, with 10x Faster Business Intelligence Delivery and 12x Faster Processing
Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Captures 47% Market Share in a Competitive Market, Thanks to 24/7 Availability
Home Credit and Finance Bank Accelerates Getting New Banking Products to Market

Extra
A Conversation with Java Champion Johan Vos

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