Oracle(R) Technology Network Surpasses Six Million Members

Community, Rich Content and Collaboration Attract Developers Across the Globe
ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle today announced that Oracle(R) Technology Network (OTN), the leading online resource for Oracle software developers, grew by more than one million members in the past 12 months and continues to be one of the largest developer communities in the world. Exceeding six million members, OTN provides developers a wealth of key technical content resources, software downloads, expert advice, and early access to participate in a strong and active community of peers.
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"The sheer number of OTN members demonstrates Oracle's continued commitment to developers, architects and database administrators and to providing extensive resources that enable the community to build, deploy, manage and optimize applications," said Ted Farrell, vice president and chief architect Tools and Middleware, Oracle. "The rich content, resources and events that accompany the Oracle Technology Network provide a key source for Oracle developers and help drive continued advancement in infrastructure and application development."
OTN Delivers Enhanced Resources to Developer Community
Embracing Web 2.0 technologies to further engage developers, Oracle recently launched the official Oracle Wiki (wiki.oracle.com). Oracle Wiki is a hosted collaborative platform that enables members of the Oracle community to interact, create and share content about Oracle-related subjects. The Oracle Wiki complements existing Oracle resources, including Oracle Discussion Forums (forums.oracle.com) and Oracle Blogs (blogs.oracle.com), all providing vehicles for customers and partners to interact with one another as well as Oracle employees, and to craft and maintain their own Oracle-related content.
Accompanying the wealth of information available today on OTN, additional resources include:
-- Trial or developer versions of Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion
Middleware software, including Oracle's latest SOA, Enterprise Java,
Data Integration, and Identity Management offerings.
-- A growing number of free, fully functional products, such as Oracle
JDeveloper, Oracle Containers for Java EE /OC4J, SQL Developer, the
Oracle Development Kit for Spring and other tools.
-- Free subscriptions to a variety of monthly technical newsletters,
including the OTN TechBlast, the Oracle Java Developer Newsletter with
over 650,000 subscribers and the .NET Developer Newsletter with over
500,000 subscribers.
-- Information regarding events such as OTN Developer Days -- free
one-day, hands-on workshops on a variety of topics such as SOA, Java
application and database development, enabling thousands of software
developers every year to learn the latest software development
technologies and standards.
-- News highlighting Oracle's engagement, support and sponsorship of third
party developer-focused events around the world, including JavaOne, Sun
Tech Days, JavaPolis, JavaZone, EclipseWorld and EclipseCon, as well as
the first Lunch 2.0 event, hosted by Oracle.
-- Expert advice from members of the Oracle ACE Program who share their
knowledge and assist customers and partners in making successful
technology decisions.
-- Outside technology resources including information and software
downloads that support or complement other technology environments,
development platforms and open source projects including Apache,
Eclipse, Google Web Toolkit, PHP, Ruby, and Spring Framework 2.0 with
integrated TopLink(R) Essentials support.
For more information about OTN and to register for a free membership, visit http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html.
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