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Oracle segments its product portfolio into two categories: technology products and applications. This section describes Oracle’s technology offerings, which include the following sample Database, Enterprise Managers, Application and System Management, Application Server, Business Intelligence, Identity Management, Tools, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Data Warehousing Products and Integration products.

This first category includes five distinct editions of the Oracle database, each suitable for different development and deployment scenarios. These five editions are: Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, Lite and Personal Edition. In addition, Oracle offers Database options that enhance the capabilities of its Oracle Database Enterprise Edition for specific application environments.

Oracle Database Standard Edition offers a low cost alternative for small/medium business or departmental applications that want the power of Oracle. Oracle Database Standard Edition can only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 4 sockets. If licensing by Named User Plus, the minimum is 5 Named User Plus licenses. Effective with the release of 10g, the Oracle Database Standard Edition product includes the Real Applications Clusters database option. The Real Applications Clusters option is not included with any Standard Edition versions prior to 10g. Customers who obtain Oracle’s Software Updates

License & Support for the Standard Edition Database can upgrade to the 10g version of the product for the supported licenses. Also, Customers must use Oracle Cluster Ready Services as the cluster ware; third party clusterware is not supported, AND Customers must use Automatic Storage Management to manage all data.

Oracle Standard Edition One provides companies the total power of Oracle Database at an affordable entry price. Oracle Standard Edition One may only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 2 sockets. If licensing by Named User Plus, the minimum is 5 Named User Plus licenses.

Oracle Lite is the leading platform to develop, deploy and manage mobile applications that store data locally on mobile devices (smart phones, PDAs, handheld computers, and traditional laptops) and synchronize data with central servers.

Oracle Database Personal Edition is a full-featured version of the Oracle Database targeted at individuals who require full compatibility with the entire Oracle Database family. Personal Edition provides a maximum of one Named User Plus per database.

Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a comprehensive management framework designed to support multiple, heterogeneous environments. Application Server Oracle Application Server runs e-commerce storefronts and personalized portals, reducing middleware complexity by replacing more than ten separate point products from other vendors. The Application Server comes in seven editions: iAS Standard Edition One, iAS Standard Edition, iAS TopLink and Application Development Framework, Enterprise Edition, WebLogic Server Standard Edition, WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition, and WebLogic Suite.

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) is the most comprehensive portfolio of technology and applications for enabling the insight-driven organization, including leading BI applications, BI platform technology, and data warehousing.

Oracle Identity Management’s best-in-class suite of idM solutions delivers the industry’s only hot-pluggable middleware, allowing enterprises to manage end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources both within and beyond the firewall.

Oracle offers a complete suite of application development and business intelligence tools for building any kind of e-business application using the latest internet technologies.

Oracle offers a complete, integrated, and open solution for all your data warehousing needs to design, build, deploy, and manage an Intelligent Webhouse. Oracle's data warehousing technologies take full advantage of the Oracle Database.