Since its founding in 1977, Oracle has adopted, embraced, developed, supported, and contributed to products built on open standards to offer our customers flexibility and choice, and Oracle remains committed to this approach. Our goal has always been to develop technologies that help customers manage information, streamline business processes, and reduce the costs and complexity of managing their IT infrastructure. Initially, Oracle delivered database software, followed by packaged enterprise applications and middleware to provide customers with a more complete, open, and integrated software solution. Now, with the addition of Sun’s servers, storage, SPARC, and software technologies such as Solaris and Java, Oracle’s portfolio evolves to provide the industry’s most complete, full-scale infrastructure solutions. Integrated with our software, these systems are expected to improve the overall security and reliability of our customers’ IT environments and provide unprecedented performance levels across the entire technology stack.

Oracle’s commitment to open standards provides its customers with flexibility and choice. One of the great strengths of Oracle products is platform portability; our products run with high performance and reliability on many hardware and operating system platforms. Oracle plans to continue to support and enhance our strong industry partnerships to ensure ongoing support for the platforms that provide our joint customers with the investment protection and choices they require.