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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 16 — Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) and BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire all outstanding shares of BEA for $19.375 per share in cash. The offer is valued at approximately $8.5 billion, or $7.2 billion net of BEA’s cash on hand of $1.3 billion. “We expect this deal to be accretive to Oracle’s earnings by at least 1-2 cents on a non-GAAP basis in its first full year after closing,” said Oracle President and Chief Financial Officer Safra Catz.

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3:00 - 3:15 Meet & Greet
3:15 - 3:30 Script / Tip / Whitepaper swap (Everyone)
3:30 - 4:30 Using Hot Backup Technology to Implement a Physical Standby Database in Standard Edition (Mike Brown)
4:30 - 5:00 TBA

The Critical Patch Update Advisory is available at any of the following locations:

Oracle Technology Network: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm

Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products: http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/support/security_index.jsp

The next four Critical Patch Update release dates are:
* April 15, 2008
* July 15, 2008
* October 14, 2008
* January 13, 2009

We will be sharing laptops and will have some laptops available in case some of you do not have 2MB of memory. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

There will be a 11g and Fusion Middleware event on January 29, 2007 in Charlotte at the Doubletree in South Park. Check out the agenda at the link below.

You can register for this event at:
http://www.oracle.com/dm/08q3field/11004_ev_fmw_11g_charlotte_jan08.html

Please let me know if you have any questions or your plans have changed as to your attending the workshop. We look forward seeing everyone.

Please contact Linda Johnson if you have any questions