With more than 370,000 customers-including 100 of the Fortune 100, and representing a variety of industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle provides the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems.

Oracle's 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 infrastructures.

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 hardware and software technologies, Oracle's portfolio has evolved.

Going forward, Oracle plans to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems-from applications to disk-where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box.