Oracle Magazine - July/August 2012

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PAGE PRODUCT NAME

17 Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 13 Oracle Exadata Database Machine 18 Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

16 Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine

18 Oracle Fusion Applications

17 Oracle Fusion Sales

16, 36 Oracle GoldenGate

16 Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management 30 Oracle Hyperion Planning

41 Oracle Hyperion Project Financial Planning

36 Oracle JDeveloper

24 Oracle Linux

29 Oracle Manufacturing Analytics

13 Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

13 Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics for SAP 13 Oracle Real Application Clusters

16 Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service

36 Oracle Secure Global Desktop 29, 30, 36, 45, 51, 57, 62 Oracle Social Network

30 Oracle Solaris 25, 26

PAGE PRODUCT NAME
19 Oracle SPARC Super Cluster
13, 14, 26, 29 Oracle Spatial
25 Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management
Analytics for SAP
24 Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
14 Oracle VM VirtualBox
18 Oracle WebCenter
13 Oracle WebLogic
19 Oracle WebLogic Server
19 Oracle Workspaces
19 Pillar Axiom 600
41 SPARC Super Cluster T4-4
16, 17, 27 SPARC T4 servers
16 Storage Tek Tape Analytics
29 Sun Blade 6000