PTOUG

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

Application Express Customer Workshop
11/28 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of Oracle APEX data and application development functionality.  Customers will have hands-on experience creating a table from a spreadsheet and building a sample application referencing this data.

Enterprise Single Sign-On Customer Workshop
11/27 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of Oracle eSSO functionality and architecture.  Using the administration component, customers will have hands-on experience setting up single sign-on for sample Web, Host and Client/Server applications.

BPEL PM Customer Workshop
11/29 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of SOA & BPEL PM and provide hands-on experience using JDeveloper and BPEL PM (how to build a notification process). Also included discussion using BPEL PM in Ebusiness or PeopleSoft environments.

BPA Suite Customer Workshop
11/28 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of SOA & BPA Suite and provide hands-on experience with BPA Suite (how to build a process model). Also included discussion using BPA Suite with BPEL PM.
  
BI Publisher Customer Workshop
11/27 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of Oracle’s BI Technology Solution and provide hands-on experience building reports with BI Publisher.

Oracle Security Overview
12/05 @ 2pm
Learn how Oracle can help guard your brand reputation, inspire customer confidence, and protect your profitability. This 2-hour webcast is geared towards IT professionals, Enterprise Architects, CISO/Directors of Security, and Database Managers.The following topics will be discussed: 1. Reduce online fraud and simplify user login issues with Single Sign On   2.  Automate Employee Onboarding/Offboarding with Identity Management 3. Protect your sensitive database data from unauthorized use 4. Simplify management of structured and unstructured content  5. Streamline Compliance efforts using automated tools· 
   
Please contact Linda Johnson for registration information.

The following new desupport advisories & notices have been approved and published for your information:
- Oracle Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) - 4.5.0, 4.5.1
- Oracle Clinical - 4.5.0
- Oracle Clinical SiteMinder - 2.1
- Oracle Clinical TrialMinder - 2.1
- Oracle Thesaurus Management System (TMS) - 4.5.0, 4.5.1

The following desupport advisories & notices have been updated and published for your review:
- Pre-Oracle Oblix Products - ALL

Please review MetaLink Doc ID: 462744.1 for further details on the above.
MetaLink Location:
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=NOT&id=462744.1

All desupport advisories and notices are available in Certify (via MetaLink) by following this path:
“Certify”==>”1. View Certifications by Product”==>”Desupport Notices”.

Check back often for updates and announcements.

Monster.com
Topic : Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB)
Date : Wednesday, 24-OCTOBER-07
Time : 9:00 AM PT (12:00 PM ET,6:00 PM Central European Time)
Speaker : Keith Majkut - Director of Engineering, Marketing Automation Systems

Amazon.com
Topic : Oracle Data Warehouse (70 TB), Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Partitioning Option, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Linux, Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
Date : Friday, 26-OCTOBER-07
Time : 9:00 AM PT (12:00 PM ET,6:00 PM Central European Time)
Speaker : Diane Lye, Director, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

R.L. Polk
Field Reference Forum
Topic : Oracle Database 10g, Oracle RAC 10g, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, Oracle Clusterware, Oracle Data Guard 10g, Oracle Automatic Storage Management, Oracle Recovery Manager, Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Portal, Oracle Discoverer
Date : Wednesday, 31-OCTOBER-07
Time : 9:00 AM PT (12:00 PM ET,6:00 PM Central European Time)
Speaker : Doug Miller, Director Database Development & Operations

Contact Chris D. Bahr (Technology Sales Manager) to register:
w 704.423.1437
c 704.299.0265

Unifi, Inc.
7201 W Friendly Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27410

3:00 - 3:15 Meet & Greet
3:15 - 3:30 Script / Tip / Whitepaper swap (Everyone)
3:30 - 4:30 Oracle 11g New Features (Stewart McGlaughlin)
4:30 - 5:00 Review Oracle DB Security Workshop & Getting The Most Out Of RMAN presentations (Stewart McGlaughlin)

Download materials

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

MetaLink as Note 455284.1.

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:
* January 15, 2008
* April 15, 2008
* July 15, 2008
* October 14, 2008

Virginia Oracle Users Group Conference
October 4 & 5
Doubletree Hotel Charlottesville
Charlottesville, Virginia
Registration is now available at www.voug.org

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

OracleMetaLink as Doc ID 432865.1:
https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=NOT&id=432865.1

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:
* October 16, 2007
* January 15, 2008
* April 15, 2008
* July 15, 2008

The following desupport advisories & notices have been updated and published for your information:
 - Oracle 10g Platform Strategy

Please review MetaLink Doc ID: 443472.1 for further details on the above.
MetaLink Location:
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=NOT&id=443472.1

All desupport advisories and notices are available in Certify (via MetaLink) by following this path:
“Certify”==>”1. View Certifications by Product”==>”Desupport Notices”.