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2006ORACLES COMMITMENT
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TAbLE O CONTENTS
Welcome to Oracles Commitment 1
Aot Oracle 2
Oracle in Action 4
Oracle in the Commnity 8
Oracles Gloal Workorce 14
Oracle and Privacy 20
Governance 22
Oracle and the Environment 26
Oracle and Energy Management 30
Q&A with Oracle President Sara Catz 32
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Oracle has a long history o employee volnteerism, charitale giving,
respect or the environment, and a strong commitment to improving
edcation. bt we have never taken the step o recording or eorts
or the eneft o or employees, shareholders, cstomers, and policy
makers arond the worldthat is, ntil now.
We are prod that the same innovative spirit ehind Oracles technological
sccess also drives innovative soltions and programs or the eneft o
or commnities. Programs sch as ThinkQest, or gloal competition or
stdents to create edcational We sites and therey ild nderstandingacross cltres, and Oracle Academy, which works in partnership
with secondary schools to edcate stdents, are jst two examples o
or creative eorts.
I wold like to take this opportnity to thank or employees or their
generosity and their sense o volnteerism. Withot them, none o this
wold e possile. Whether it is y responding to major international
tragedies sch as the Tsnami or y helping ot at the local homeless
shelter, or employees actions are a sorce o pride or Oracle.
With contined hard work, we intend to maintain or reptation asan innovative leader in or indstry, as we contine or commitment
to good corporate citizenship. I welcome yor eedack to this report
.
Sara A. Catz
President, Oracle
WELCOMETO oracles commitment
We are committed
to sing or technology
and resorces to advance
edcation in innovative
ways, promote diversity,
enrich the lie o com-
mnities, and protect
the environment.
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Oracles business is inormation
how to manage it, use it, share it,
and protect it. For nearly three
decades, Oracle, the worlds largest
enterprise sotware company, has
helped governments and businesses
around the world drive their enterprises
based on quality, real-time inormation.
Oracle is helping enterprises use high-
quality inormation to collaborate,
measure results, and generate a single
view o critical business data.
The success o our products and
services is based on three principles:
Simpliy Enterprises must increase
the speed o inormation delivery
with integrated systems.
Standardize Enterprises must
reduce cost and maintenance with
open, easily available technology.
Automate Enterprises must
improve operational eciency with
technology and best practices.
Throughout the companys history,
Oracle has pursued a position o
leadership in the technology industry.
In the course o that pursuit, the
company and its employees have
committed to high standards
in daily business and in the policies
set orth by the organization.
This report is a refection o that
commitment to excellence.
AbOuT ORACLE
Or ac l e c Or p Or atiOn at a Gl anc e
Chie Exective OicerLawrence J. EllisonbsinessData/Enterprise Management Sotware
Annal Revene uS$14 illion Employees Approximately 55,000 Contries o Operation More than 79 Headqarters
Redwood Shores, Caliornia, united States
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O r a c l e p r O d u c t s a n d s e r v i c e s
The Oracle Dataase Oracle was onded on the concept o an enterprise-strength
relational dataasesotware that allows sinesses to store and access immense
amonts o data. or example, Costa Ricas National biodiversity Institte (INbio) ses
the Oracle Dataase to gather data aot the contrys iological diversity and generateinormation that promotes sstainale se.
Oracle Applications Oracles Applications prodcts help sinesses inpt, maniplate,
and view siness data ased on jo role or siness processes. or example, the
u.S.-ased National Aeronatics and Space Administrations Jet Proplsion Laoratory
ses Oracle Applications to atomate siness processes, redce operational costs, and
reinvest savings into space exploration projects.
Oracle sion Middleware This sotware controls the low o inormation etween the
dataase and applications, ensring that dierent compter systems can work together,
secrity policies are enorced, and new applications can e easily deployed. The city o
Kingston pon Hll in the united Kingdom ses Oracle sion Middleware to integrate
interactions with its 250,000 citizens and improve access to city services.
Oracle Services Oracle provides services to help or cstomers get the most rom or
sotware prodcts, inclding 24/7 gloal technical spport, conslting services to helpwith implementation and pgrades, and Oracle university to assist with training. Oracle
Conslting helped Yonsei universityone o Soth Koreas leading teaching and research
instittionsimprove access to We-ased services and internet research tools or its
45,000-stdent commnity.
mehsanadistrictcOOperativemilk
prOducersuniOn
The Mehsana District Cooperative Mil
Prodcers union doesnt only deliver
ntritios ood to the tales o ran
Indians. It also ensres that armers
in the contrys poorest rral regions
have yers or their goods and money
or their amilies. The program, which
works to maximize milk prodction
in Indias most ertile regions and
distrite dairy prodcts to the city
centers with highest demand, has
received worldwide recognition or its
eorts. It is part o a dairy project that
The ood and Agricltre Organization
o the united Nations calls the centra
event o twentieth-centry dairying
in India.
To improve the efciency o
dairy operations and streamline
distrition to the fve cities it serves,
the Mehsana District Cooperative
Milk Prodcers union implemented
Oracle E-bsiness Site 11. Now,
inormation that was once exchanged
on paper or over nreliale phone
connections is sent over the internet.
As a reslt, the time it takes to proces
a prchase order has een redced
rom 20 days to 3 days.
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Oracle Volunteers Rebuild a
School Devastated by the TsunamiAs the world watched in horror during
the days ollowing the tsunami in South
Asia on December 26, 2004, people
everywhere thought: What can I do to
help? For Oracle employees living and
working near the devastated areas, as
well as those living hal way around the
world, the answer was simple enough.
With Oracles help, the employees
organized unds and relie eorts withinhours o a disaster that had let more
than a million people homeless.
The donations helped und initial relie
eorts by specially trained disaster relie
workers ocused on providing critical
aid to survivors. In addition to monetary
contributions, Oracle employees in the
Asia Pacic region were able to volunteerto help rebuild some o the more
devastated areas.
One in particular is the Ban Bang Bane
School in Thailand. The school was
severely damaged, and Oracle sta in
Thailand visited the Ranong Province
to help rebuild the school. Fity-ve
volunteers worked or several days
to rebuild the school, which opened
to 120 children and 20 teachers and
sta in the new school year. We are glad
that Oracle selected Ban Bang Bane
School to repair ater the tsunami,
says Manut Chansakul, principal.
In March 2005, Oracle rebuilt two
teacher housing units on school grounds.
Most o the teachers are rom other
provinces, and traveling to and romthe school is dicult. Beore the living
quarters were rebuilt, teachers had to
travel 15 kilometers between the school
and town each day, Chansakul says.
They are very appreciative and grateul to
the Oracle volunteers who dedicated their
time and eorts to help us out ollowing
the disaster. Volunteers eorts in Marchmade it possible or the school to open or
the second semester in May 2005.
Oracle Thailand employees were
pleased we had the opportunity to help
reconstruct the school, says Khun
Natasak Rodjanapiches, managing
director or Oracle in Thailand. This
eort will help ensure a brighter uture
or these students, he said.
ORACLEIN ACTION
Stdents joined Oracle volnteers to
reild classrooms ater the ban bang
bane School was adly damaged y the
tsnami o 2004.
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ORACLEIN ACTION
Think.com and WebPlay
Promote Cross-Cultural LearningImagine a place where thousands o
children can participate in an experience
that promotes creative and cross-cultural
collaboration and learning. Oracles
Think.com teamed with WebPlay to
create such a place, engaging students
with technology and drama.
The two programs are a natural
t. Think.com, an online learning
community hosted by Oracle Education
Foundation, provides collaboration tools
that allow students and teachers to share
inormation within the protected site
and post their work or other students
to read and oer eedback. WebPlay,
another online education program,
enables primary school children
to create and produce plays while
collaborating with a proessional theatre
company and students rom partner
schools in dierent countries.
We enable children rom contrasting
communities to communicate,
collaborate, and create, says Sydney
Thornbury, WebPlays executive
director. As part o WebPlay, students
use Think.coms ree, online educational
platorm to share ideas, exchange
inormation, and develop plays while
building technology skills.
Last March, Think.com and WebPlay
welcomed more than 250 Los Angeles
students to the Skirball Cultural Center
or a live perormance by the U.K.s Hoi
Polloi Theatre Company. During the
three-day event, more than 500 third-,
ourth-, and th-grade students attended
a play and special workshops to learn
about drama and playwriting as part
o WebPlays new education initiative,
WebPlay L.A. Devised as a nine-month
project, WebPlay L.A. students rst built
Web pages in Think.com and conducted
research with their partner schools
to discover acts about one anothers
neighborhoods. They explored themes
such as where other students live and
what makes their hometowns special.
During the drama development phase,
students interacted with Hoi Pollois
actors, backstage teams, writers, and
directors to learn how to develop plays
rom page to stage. The students then
attended a live perormance at Skirball
Cultural Center, had lunch with their
partner class, and participated in a
workshop with the theatre company
and WebPlay sta.
The main ocus o the WebPlay
program is on using technology
to urther enhance the live theatre
experience or young audiences,
says Thornbury. Ater seeing a live
perormance, the students returned to
the classroom to create their own plays
set in their partner school. The plays
were perormed, digitally videotaped,
and uploaded to Think.com.
We chose Think.com because it is
a antastic environment with tons o
potential or collaborative learning.
And it was so easy. None o us were
techies, so it was great that the system
could be learned quickly and easily by
all, Thornbury says. Oracle is really
providing access to technology or
schoolsthere are no barriers.
We enable children fr
contrasting communitito communicate,
collaborate, and create
Together, Think.com and WePlay are
reaking down cltral and geographical
arriers etween teachers and stdents.
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Oracle Academy Supports Teachers
and Students WorldwideWhats the best way to give todays
teenagers a competitive edge in the
global marketplace? Oer them training
in the worlds quickly expanding
technology base. For the last six years,
the Oracle Academy has hosted an
annual event to help train secondary-
school teachers around the world.
Recently, the Academy brought that
expertise to Egyptian educators who,
along with their counterparts rom
18 countries and 34 states, participated
in the weeklong event at University
o Caliornia, Los Angeles (UCLA).
The proessional development orum
helps teachers to prepare their students
or uture academic and business success.
Quality teacher training is critical to
help educators incorporate technology
into their broader curriculum, says
Clare Dolan, vice president o Oracle
Academic Initiatives.
Prior to the proessional orum, parti-
cipating teachers attend preliminary
training sessions consisting o online
classes, quizzes, weekly conerence
calls, and ongoing e-mail dialogue with
Academy mentors. During the orum,
the teachers spend the week with Oracle
sta and Oracle University instructors.
The teachers then demonstrate their
readiness to teach the curriculum by
completing a project that challenges
them to apply their new technical skills,
as well as by passing an exit exam.
Once theyve completed their training,
teachers go back to their home schools
and deliver the curriculum to their
students. So ar, at least 360 Egyptian
students and 10,000 students rom
other countries have beneted rom
the program.
The Egyptian involvement is the result
o a joint initiative between the Oracle
Academy and Egypts Ministries o
Education (MOE) and Communications
and Inormation Technology (MCIT).
The partnership demonstrates Oracles
deep commitment to the successul
development o IT in the region,
says Ate Helmy, Oracles
managing director or Egypt.
This kind o training can have
an invaluable impact on the next
generation o business leaders.
Ater just two semesters o
study, Academy students gain
database design, SQL, and project
management skills that are
applicable to a variety o technical
jobs. For advanced students who
wish to build upon those skills, an
additional semester prepares them to
complete the Oracle Certied Associate
(OCA) 9i Developer certication
providing a greater competitive edge
in todays job market.
Its been quite exciting to see new
opportunities that have opened or
my students as a result o their Oracle
Academy experiences, says Robin
Smith o Arnold R. Burton Technology
Center, Roanoke County, Virginia.The
real-world technical skills they learn
boost their condence and give them a
competitive edge or their uture.
Its been quite exciting
o see new opportunitieshat have opened for my
tudents as a result of
heir Oracle Academy
xperiences.
ORACLEIN ACTION
Egyptian teachers joined conterparts rom
arond the world at the Oracle Academy in
Los Angeles, Caliornia.
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ORACLEIN ACTION
ThinkQest winner Amm Irivinti
accepts her frst-place award rom
Oracle President Sara Catz.
Oracles ThinkQuest Promotes
a Students War on AIDSWhen Ammu Irivinti accidentally
bumped her head and it bled, one
o her riends convinced her that
she had contracted AIDS. Imagine
Ammus relie to discover that she
had been misinormed.
The incident, which took place six
years ago, also made Ammu realize
that other kids might be as in the dark
as she was. So, using her skills and
interest in the online world, she created
a Web site whose purpose is to inorm
other children about the realities o
the disease and its devastating eects.
At 15, the young woman rom New
Hampshirewho has helped raise
more than $85,000 or children and
young mothers with AIDSwas
invited to speak at the United Nations
as one o 50 students rom around
the world to address issues o poverty
and disease.
Ammus initial online eort
grew into an award-winning
Web site that won rst placein the ThinkQuest student
competitiona program
sponsored by the Oracle
Education Foundation. She
viewed the competition as
a new way to make an impact
on the AIDS crisis and
educate other kids about
the history and current state
o the disease. I thought
that i people did something
constructive we could solve this
issue, says Ammu. The Web site
gets 6,000 visits each month, an
encouraging sign. Its rewarding
to know that the eort is making
people understand AIDS better.
Ammu created an international team
that worked together via e-mail and
online chats to assemble the Web
site. First she turned to her cousin,
Kalanidheesh Medavaram, in India, who
took charge o the content research
and writing or the site. The rest o
the team comprised students who had
let comments in the orum on that
original educational AIDS Web site,
which she had created when she was
nine. I enjoyed leading the team,
even though I had never done this
internationally, she says. The time
dierences were denitely a major
barrier, but we managed with online
chat, e-mail, and an occasional
phone call.
Overcoming cultural barriers
was a side benet to the site
development. They can
be overcome, says Ammu.
You can work with anyone
regardless o religion and
race when you see that we are
all people going or the same
thing. That was the most
valuable thing I learned.
You can work with anyone regardless of
religion and race when you see that we are all
people going for the same thing.
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ORACLEIN THE COMMuNITY
Children in Zagre, Croatia, eneft rom
an improved compter center, renovated
y local Oracle employees.
Oracle works actively to address
community needs and improve quality
o lie in the communities in which
it does business. Preerring to solve
problems rather than manage their
consequences, Oracle and its employees
ocus on bringing about positive
change in our key areas: education,
giving, community partnerships, and
volunteerism.
Oracle Education Initiatives
Oracle believes in the power o
education to create change. Oracle
invests in math, science, and technology
programs that target low-income
communities and encourage the gited
innovators o tomorrow. In addition,
Oracle increases access to technology
by providing resources, training, and
curricula to academic institutions.
The ability to use technology to learn
and succeed in the twenty-rst century
has become a new basic requirement
or all students. Oracle has created
a amily o education programs that
leverages its core competencies in
inormation technology and the
internet. These include the ollowing:
Oracle Education Foundation
A nonprot unded by Oracle
working in partnership with schools,
governments, and other nonprots
and NGOs to promote education
with technology through select
grants, research and evaluation,
and its ThinkQuest and Think.com
programs.
ThinkQuest An international
competition in which students andteachers are challenged to create
educational Web sites and build
understanding across cultures.
Think.com A no-cost, advertising-
ree, protected online environment
or schools worldwide that provides
a suite o tools or Web site publishing,
research, discussion, and project
collaboration.
Oracle Academic Initiative
A program in which Oracle provides
state-o-the-art sotware and
curricula or colleges and universities
and trains educators to teach
technical curriculum.
c O m m i t m e n t
Oracle will work in innovative ways to advance edcation programsthat prepare stdents or 21st centry technology demands.
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rau/OracleschOOlOfmaths
In association with RAu univer-
sity in Johannesrg, Soth Arica,
Oracle spports the development o
mathematics in Sowetos second-
ary schools. In the Satrday School
program, condcted year-rond with
more than 400 stdents rom Grades
8 throgh 12, stdents are ttored in
mathematics y RAu lectrers andsenior math stdents who also come
rom disadvantaged ackgronds. The
Winter School, a six-day intensive
program or Grade 12 stdents, assists
stdents with inal-exam preparation
to improve their exam marks. both pro
grams provide instrction, additional
learning aids, lnch, and rereshments
Stdents show some school pride
at the Oracle-sponsored Rand
Arikaans university School o Maths
in Johannesrg, Soth Arica.
Oracle Academy A partnership
with secondary schools that educates
students on the undamentals o
database and Java technology, and
equips them with interviewing,
presentation, project management,
and collaboration skills.
Workorce Development Program
A program that addresses the need
or accessible and low-cost IT skills-
training in local communities, withthe goal o preparing students or
Oracle certication testing and career
advancement opportunities.
Oracle Giving
Oracle Giving is committed to being
a vital, contributing partner to the
world community, building long-
term alliances with nonpolitical,
nonreligious, nonprot organizations
to make a substantial impact on
education, the environment, and
medical research.
Since its inception, Oracle Giving has
supported projects with measurable
outcomes in the areas o primary
or secondary math, science, and
technology education; environmental
and endangered animal protection;
and medical research or AIDS, cancer,
and neuroscience. In addition, Oracle
encourages employee community
involvement through the Oracle
Matching Gits Program, in which
the company matches donations made
by employees to eligible nonprot
organizations.
Oracle Giving works closely with
partners who share our vision: to seek
genuine intersections between the
needs o society and the goals o our
company, and make investments that
benet both. Integral to this vision is a
commitment to support communities
around the world where Oracle
has employees. By combining ourresources, strengths, and technology
with those o our partners, we can
make a visible dierence.
c O m m i t m e n t
Oracle will se or resorces to partner with organizations that striveto enrich the qality o lie in commnities arond the world.
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ORACLE IN THE COMMuNITY
Indonesian children get a lesson rom
an Oracle employee dring 2004 Oracle
Gloal Volnteer Days.
Oracle Volunteers
Established in 1991, Oracle Volunteers
provides opportunities or Oracle
employees to actively address social
needs and make a measurable,
positive impact in the community.
Oracle volunteers lend their time and
talents to not only serve underserved
populations, but also to enrich the
quality o lie in the communities
where we live and work. Volunteers
teach basic saety and lie skills lessons
to the blind, protect native habitatsor endangered wildlie, tutor and
mentor disadvantaged youth, provide
companionship or lonely and isolated
elders, and build playgrounds and
housing or low-income amilies to
revitalize neighborhoods in transition.
Oracle Volunteers engages employees
in a variety o volunteer opportunities
throughout the San Francisco Bay
Area and worldwide. This year,
Oracle employees at the companysheadquarters participated in over 85
projects, logging over 3,400 volunteer
hours to support Bay Area nonprot
organizations. During Oracle Global
Volunteer Days, a company-wide
service initiative to urther Oracles
commitment to social responsibility,
more than 2,400 volunteers in 28
countries contributed more than
14,700 volunteer hours to benet local
communities around the world.
Oracle Community Partners
Oracle is committed to the local
communities in which its employees
live and work. To complement Oracle
Giving and Oracle Volunteers,
Oracle created Community Partners
to establish a local presence in each
major U.S. community with an Oracle
acility. This program gives Oracle
the opportunity to interact with local
government agencies and community
planning commissions, participate
in local chambers o commerce and
community events, promote health
and saety eorts such as supporting
local reghters and police, and share
company acilities such as conerence
rooms with local nonprot agencies.
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[ f a c t s ]
Oracle Japan spported 127 nonproit
organizations in Y05.
ThinkQest was named best InternetSite or Kids y Common Sense Media.
Since Octoer 2003, 1,100 teams made
p o 4,750 international stdents rom
42 contries have smitted entries to
the ThinkQest competition.
Think.com has 143,210 active
sers in 3,140 schools in 18
contries, with an Y05 grant
vale o uS$1.4 million.
rom Jne 2003 to May 2005,
the Oracle Edcation ondation
Grants program has delivered
uS$1.3 million in cash and
hardware, pls uS$600,000
in services.
The Oracle Academic Initiative crrently
serves 331,558 stdents in 1,949
instittions in 72 contrieswith
growth in 2003 o 70 percent in Asia
Paciic alone.
Oraclelatinamericae-talent
prOGram
Oracle e-Talent is a stdent program
developed y Oracle Latin America,
in which stdents with siness and
engineering ackgronds rom lead-
ing Latin American niversities are
recrited to work or Oracle dring
their last year o stdy. Stdents come
rom 10 Latin American contriesand receive technical training, project
management and presentation train-
ing, weekly meetings with an Oracle
technical coach, reglar perormance
evalations, and networking oppor-
tnities with senior exectives. Once
stdents gradate they may e invited
to work ll time with Oracle or one o
its siness partners.
In Italy, Oracle staers pt their est
oot orward y working with a local
yoth soccer team.
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Commitment to Accessibility
Successul access to inormation by
people with disabilities is known as
accessibility. Accessibility is a
signicant issue or a growing user
population.
Historically, users with disabilities
have been provided customized
solutions, but given state-o-the-art
e-commerce applications with built-
in color keys, drop-down menus,
graphical user interaces that requirea mouse, and plug-ins that cant be
translated by screen readers, custom
solutions or individual users in an
enterprise are no longer practical.
Accessibility must now be integral to
the basic design so that enterprise-
wide solutions can accommodate the
changing needs o users.
Worldwide standards that dene
accessibility are based on Section 508
o the Rehabilitation Act (U.S.) andthe World Wide Web Consortiums
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
Oracle began releasing products coded
to Section 508 standards in 2001.
Additionally, Oracle documentation
is available in a variety o ormats,
including HTML, plain text, and PDF.
Work began in 2000 to ensure that
documentation would be available in
accessible ormat, in accordance with
applicable Section 508 standards.
However, in live technical
implementations, Oracles products
must oten interact with technology
rom other vendorstechnology
over which Oracle exerts no control.
Accessibility may be a universal goal,
but it is a shared responsibility across
the hardware, sotware, and assistive
technology industries. Oracles goal is
to ensure that products and services are
accessible to the disabled community
with excellent usability. Industry
standards will continue to evolve over
time, and Oracle is actively engaged
with other market-leading technology
vendors in addressing technical
obstacles.
ORACLE IN THE COMMuNITY
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[ f a c t s ]
using the Oracle Think.com learning environment,
more than 500 stdents in Northern Ireland and
Soth Arica discssed the ook, th c
taot an Arican girl who loses her leg in aland mineonline with the ooks athor and with
one another.
Oracle Giving donated uS$40,000 to the
bck Institte to spport the next stage o
Dr. Christopher benzs stdies involving the
review and analysis o Marin Conty, Caliornia,
reast-cancer cases, with a view to identiying
nderlying cases.
Oracle Giving donated uS$100,000 to
the Ocean Conservancy, Inc. in spport
o its contined partnership to spport
the annal International Coastal
Clean-up Day.
Oracle Edcation Initiatives operates in
80 contries arond the world, in over
4,100 schools, with more than 428,000
participantsand represents a grant
vale o over uS$2.06 illion.
The Oracle Academy has trained
584 teachers and 13,125 stdents
worldwide since 2001 and is crrently
active in 525 instittions.
Dring Gloal Volnteer Days, Oracle
volnteers in Santiago, Chile, planted over
300 trees in bosqe Santiago, a natral
preserve in Chile.
Oracle volnteers have a
close relationship with the boys
and Girls Cl o the Peninsla,
where employees spend their
o-hors working and playing
with local yoth.
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ORACLESGLObAL WORKORCE
In an increasingly global economy,
it is not surprising that a company
that serves customers around the
world would need sta to support
those customerswherever they are.
Oracle uses our resources to develop
and deliver quality products and
services to the global market. Oracle
employs people around the world in
global development, sales, and services
in order to meet the needs o our
customers. Using a geographically
dispersed workorce allows Oracle and
other global companies to continue
to drive innovation, improve the
economic status o workers around the
world, and build the global economy.
Additionally, customers running
Oracle-based enterprise systems
require access to technical support 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a
yearoten delivered in the customers
native language. Employing a global
workorce allows Oracle to address
these demands and ensure that our
clients receive the level o attention
they require to keep their mission-
critical computing systems online.
The number o employees by region
and the revenue generated in those
regions remain in balance.
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Minority 39%
Women 32%
Women and Minority Management
40% 26%
34%
u.s.minOritYemplOYees.tOtalu.sWOrkfOrce:
Minority is deined as employees
sel-identiied race or ethnicity.
c O m m i t m e n t
Oracle seeks to ild an inclsive workorce and work environment. We makeevery eort to attract, invest in, and develop the talents o a diverse grop opeople who relect the society and commnity in which we live. We welcome
and spport people o all races, ethnicities, cltres, and religions, and seekto oster teamwork and eective partnerships among or employees.
u.s.femaleemplOYees.tOtalu.s.
WOrkfOrce
u.s.minOritYandfemalemanaGers.tOtalu.s.manaGement
Diversity
Oracles diversity vision starts with
cultivating an environment that is
inclusive o all employees. Individual
dierences present us with opportunities
to examine business issues rom a
variety o perspectives. Incorporating
these dierent viewpoints gives us
greater agility and creativity. The result
is a workorce unied by common
goals and strengthened by uncommon
outlooks. Oracle believes that such an
environment is necessary to eectively
compete on a global scale. Valuing
diversity by using eective communication
skills and demonstrating mutual
respect is simply good business. At
Oracle, we are dedicated to realizing
our diversity vision in our daily
business practices worldwide.
Diversity has enriched the business
community in every quarter o the
globe, promoting the underlying
themes o tolerance and respect.However, the concept o diversity is
not uniorm. Oracle acknowledges
and embraces the cultural dierences
that shape the varying international
conceptions o diversity, as they
maniest in law and in business. Our
vision or diversity incorporates and
provides or all such dierences, in
the spirit o diversity itsel.
An example o our commitment to
building a diversied workorce is
our multi-year education grant to the
United Negro College Fund (UNCF).
This grant provides cash, curriculum,
teacher training, certication, and
technology resources to the UNCF
and its 39 member institutions.
The grant is a response to the
Technology Enhancement Capital
Campaign, launched by the UNCF
to give historically black colleges
and universities access to advanced
teaching and learning methods, and
cutting-edge technology within degree
programs. Oracles grant also unds a
scholarship and internship program
that helps students gain actual work
experience across multiple disciplines.
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ORACLES GLObAL WORKORCE
Oracle at Work
Oracle provides an ocial Code o
Ethics and Business Conduct to its
employees worldwide or their guidance
in addressing the legal and ethical issues
they encounter when conducting Oracle
business. Although employment by
Oracle is subject to terms and conditions
established by local organizations,
employees are required to abide by
the standards set orth in this Code.
These standards cannot anticipate
every situation that may pose an
ethical or moral issue, but Oracle
expects each employee to exercise
sound judgment when evaluating
an issue o conduct. When in doubt,
employees are encouraged to seek
counseling prior to taking any action
that may compromise either personal
ethical standards or those o Oracle.
To support employees in the pursuit o
superior business ethics and conduct,
Oracle has designed global courses, based
on the Code, which new employees are
required to take within the rst 30 days
o employment. Both the Code and
the courses have been translated into
many languages. These courses include
the ollowing:
Ethics and Business Conduct
A required online sel-study course
that provides employees with
inormation to aid them in
understanding and abiding by the
Code. It is oered in eight languages.
Ethics and Business Conduct
Supplemental A required course
or employees involved with
government and higher education.
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Sexual Harassment Awareness
An online sel-study course that
provides employees with inormation
about identiying, preventing, and
reporting sexual harassment in the
workplace. This course is oered in
13 languages.
Data Privacy Awareness A required
eSeminar course that provides
employees with inormation about
the legislation and principles odata protection, including employee
obligations related to data privacy.
Oracle also maintains a Compliance
and Ethics Helpline and Web site to
assist employees who have witnessed
or suspect a violation o Oracles Code
o Ethics and Business Conduct and
allow them to report the situation
condentially and anonymously.
Deviations rom our business conduct
standards are not tolerated.
Disciplinary action is taken against
any individual who is ound to have
authorized, condoned, participated
in, or concealed actions that are in
violation o these standards; against
any manager who disregards or
approves a violation, or who, through
lack o diligence in supervision,
ails to prevent or report violations;
and against managers who retaliate,
directly or indirectly, or encourage
others to retaliate against an employee
who reports a potential violation o
these standards.
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ORACLES GLObAL WORKORCE
Oracle provides a variety o training
programs designed to support
employee knowledge and skills
development. These programs are
designed to help our workorce
perorm productively and eectively
in current job roles as well as prepare
employees or uture challenges. On
average, employees complete at least
one week o ormal internal training
each year, and technical and sales
employees typically receive up to our
weeks o ormal training each year.
Oracle oers a variety o technical,
proessional, and personal development
training through a number o
learning media. Oracle Universitys
global internal training Web site
provides online Oracle technology
training courses. Courses are ree or
employees and are oered both as live
and archived presentations. The site
also provides on-demand access to
Oracles Compliance Program courses,
educating employees about Oracle
corporate policies and how to report
conduct that deviates rom Oracles
policy standards.
Employee Training and Development
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thestandardssetfOrthintheOraclecOdeOfethicsandBusinesscOnductareGOvernedBYthefOllOWinGBusinessvalues:
Integrity Oracle employees demonstrate honesty and sond ethical ehavior in all
siness transactions and personal integrity in all dealings with others.
Mtal Respect Oracle employees consistently treat individals with respect
and dignity.
Teamwork Oracle employees work together as a team or the collective interests
o Oracle.
Commnication Oracle employees share inormation widely and eectively with
one another, except when conidentiality is reqired.
Innovation Oracle employees seek innovative and creative approaches to
prolem solving.
Cstomer Satisaction Oracle employees consistently treat cstomer satisaction
as a top priority.
Qality Oracle employees make excellence and qality a part o their day-to-day
work processes and seek continos improvement in all that they do.
airness Oracle employees are committed to dealing airly with cstomers, sppliers,
and one another.
Compliance Oracle employees comply with all laws and reglations that govern
Oracles siness.
bsiness Condct Oracle employees oserve the standards that have een estalished
y Oracle and act ethically in their approach to siness decisions.
Oracles Code o Ethics and bsiness Condct can e ond at
oracle.com/corporate/investor_relations/codeoethics.pd
OraclesuppOrtsGlOBalemplOYees
Oraclerevenue.WOrkfOrceBYreGiOn
rgo %or %oWooAmericas 48.84% 49.99%
Erope, 36.37% 24.89%
Middle East,
Arica
Asia Paciic 14.79% 25.12%
Oracle volnteers spend
the day with children rom the
orm or Street Children in
Hyderaad, India.
Gloal HR services frm Hewitt Associates named
Oracle India one o the 25 best Employers in its
best Employer Srvey 2004.
A DataQest srvey placed Oracle in its
Top 10 Employers or 2004.
Oracles Arican Operations region was named the
2005 Employer o the Year y af iv.
CCTV, Chinas national television network, recog-
nized Oracle China as one o the contrys
Top 10 Employers in 2005.
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ORACLE AND PRIVACY
In todays digital age, where inormation
is the new currency, the protection o
personal data and assurance o identity
on the internet are important elements
o corporate policy. These protections
need to be deployed in the policies and
practices o the company as well as in
the technologies that support them.
Oracle has implemented corporate
privacy polices and practices to protect
the personal inormation o its customersand employees. As part o the companys
international policy advocacy, we are
active participants in intergovernmental
initiatives to improve the state o privacy
protection and develop workable policy
solutions and best practices. There is an
emerging understanding that workable
solutions need to provide eective
privacy protections to consumers and
citizens while enabling the necessary
and responsible inormation fows that
are the basis o todays digital economy.We are working with other industry
participants as well as governments
and nongovernmental organizations
to develop solutions that help us reach
both o these objectives.
Oracle technology also plays a role in
privacy protection. Privacy, by its very
nature, is subjective. Our individual
sensitivities about how our inormation
is treatedor what it is used and with
whom it is sharedare not uniorm.
Furthermore, the need to use inormation
varies across business process and
business types. A doctor will have
more personal inormation that will
be used, and possibly shared with
other medical practitioners, than will
an auto mechanic. The nature o the
job and the inormation processes
associated with that job dictate what
is reasonable and necessary. In light o
this need or tailoring technology to
support a variety o business practices
and inormation preerences, Oracle
provides tools that our customers can
congure to help support their own
privacy policies and practices.
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GOVERNANCE
The Oracle group o companies
consists o 183 companies in 79
countries. As a U.S.-based, publicly
traded corporation, Oracles goal is
to comply with the laws o the United
States and the laws o each country
in which it conducts business.
Oracle provides detailed public
accounting and analyst inormation.
We also provide inormation about
Oracles values and vision; the Boardo Directors and Board Committees;
Oracle executives; and Oracles business
ethics or employees, partners, and
suppliers.
Sarbanes-Oxley Regulations
In the United States, the Sarbanes-
Oxley Act ormalizes corporate
accountability or nancial reporting
and disclosure o internal business
controls and processes. Enacted in
2002, this regulation undamentally
changes the way U.S.-based businesses
report nancial inormation and
the way that boards and executives
discharge duciary responsibility.
As a U.S.-based corporation, Oracle
believes we are in compliance with
Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. Additionally,
Oracle creates products and solutions
designed to help other companies
comply with the letter and spirit o
Sarbanes-Oxley by increasing the control
and eciency our customers have over
their critical business inormation and
improving their nancial transparency.
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Oracles Corporate Governance
Principles
Oracles Board o Directors has
developed corporate governance
practices to ulll its responsibilities
to Oracle shareholders. As part o these
practices, the Board adopted a set o
corporate governance guidelines to
help ensure that it has the necessary
authority and procedures in place to
oversee the work o management andto exercise independence in evaluating
Oracles business operations. These
guidelines include policies regarding:
Director Qualications
A Nomination and Governance
Committee assesses potential Board
members based on their independence,
character, and acumen.
Director Responsibilities The
basic responsibility o the directors
is to exercise their business judgment
and act in a manner they believe is in
the best interest o the company and its
shareholders. Board members attend
the Annual Meeting o Shareholders,
Board meetings, and meetings o
committees on which they serve.
Director Compensation The
Compensation Committee determines
the orm and amount o director
compensation annually, in accordance
with the policies and principles set
orth in its charter.
Chie Executive Ocer Evaluation
The Compensation Committee
conducts an annual review o the CEOs
perormance and compensation.
Board Evaluation The Board, led
by the Nomination and Governance
Committee, periodically conducts a
sel-evaluation to determine whether
the Board and its committees are
unctioning eectively.
Oracles Corporate Governance
Guidelines can be ound at
oracle.com/corporate/investor_
relations/corpgov.pd
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GOVERNANCE
Conict o Interest
Oracle maintains a Confict o
Interest policy to help senior ocers
and directors identiy and properly
address potential conficts o interest
involving the company. Conficts
include situations when a director or
senior ocer has a personal nancial
interest in a transaction entered into by
Oracle or by an entity doing business
with Oracle, or situations when theyintend to exploit an opportunity
that rightully belongs to Oracle.
This policy includes the ollowing
procedures:
Duty to Disclose Directors or
senior ocers must promptly
disclose any actual or possible
confict o interest.
Determining Whether a Confict
Exists Ater disclosure o all
material acts related to the potential
confict o interest, the appropriate
individual or committee will decide
whether or not a confict exists.
Investments by Senior Ocers
Although senior ocers o the
company may invest in third parties
as part o their personal investment
strategy, they may be in violation o
this policy i they invest in any o
Oracles portolio o companies or in
entities that materially compete with
any part o Oracles business.
Service on Boards o Directors
No senior ocer may serve onthe board o directors or advisory
board o any company, other
than a nonprot entity, without
the approval o the CEO and the
Executive Management Committee.
The Independent Committee must
approve an appointment to the
board o a public company.
Oracles Confict o Interest policy
can be ound at oracle.com/corporate/
investor_relations/coip.pd
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In addition, Oracle was a major
supporter o the Measure A hal-
cent sales tax approved in November
2004 by voters in San Mateo County,
Caliornia. This measure will raise
US$1.5 billion to und public
transportation initiatives, improve
trac fow, and reduce highway
congestion.
Recycling Programs
Almost since its ounding, Oracle
has had a ormal program to recycle
the waste byproducts ound in most
oce environments: computers, paper,
CDs, bottles, cans, cardboard, toner
cartridges, batteries, and more. Bins
are labeled and placed in convenient
locations to encourage recycling, and
it is truly a way o lie or Oracle
employees.
As we strive to deepen our
environmental commitment, we
undertake more aggressive initiatives
such as an organic-waste recycling
program at our HQ acilities. We
intend to reproduce this pilot program
in regions around the world.
Monitoring Greenhouse
Gas Emissions
Oracle was the rst sotware
company to volunteer or the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agencys
(EPA) Climate Leaders program. This
industry/government partnership
requires companies to develop long-
term, comprehensive climate-change
strategies; set greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions-reduction goals; inventory
their emissions to measure progress;
and monitor and report progress to the
EPA as climate-change policy continues
to unold. Oracle will achieve our
reduction goals almost entirely
through more ecient energy use.
OracleandtheenvirOnment
In 2005, Oracle was No. 2 on the u.S.
Environmental Protection Agencys Top
20 best Workplaces or Commters.
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ORACLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
In Leanon, Oracle employees work to
improve the health o local orests.
Oracle is also a ounding member
o the Sustainable Silicon Valley
Initiative, an organization whose
members seek to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions to the levels recommended
by the Kyoto Protocol.
Oracles voluntary commitment to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions
extends well beyond common practice
in its industry, and the company will
continue to explore ways to reduce itsimpact on the environment.
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O r a c l e u . k . s i s O 1 4 0 0 1 c e r t i f i c a t i O n
Oracles environmental practices in the u.K. are a model or Oracle oices arond the
world. Oracle u.K. implemented an Environment Management System in March 2004
and ecame ISO 14001-certiied in Jne 2004. The ISO (International Organization or
Standardization) 14001 certiication addresses environmental managementwhatan organization does to minimize the potentially harml environmental eects
cased y its activities. Initiatives estalished y the u.K. oice inclde measres to
redce the environmental eects rom transportation, ozone-depleting rerigerants,
and hazardos waste. In addition, Oracle u.K. has committed to redce electricity,
gas, and water se over two years. Oracle acilities arond the world are adopting
similar programs and practices.
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by centralizing the companys distrition systems to a ew regional centers
eliminating 24 distrition operationsand y implementing electronic distrition
as the standard y which cstomers receive oth prodct and docmentation,
Oracle has signiicantly redced its consmption o paper, cardoard, and other natral
resorces. The company has also minimized the amont o resorces reqired to
transport prodct to sers arond the world.
Ater moving to electronic models o docmentation distrition in 1998, Oracle has
redced the amont o printed docmentation it ships y more than 96 percent.
Oracle employees collect trash at
San ranciscos Ocean beach or
Oracle Gloal Volnteer Days.
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0
ORACLEAND ENERGY MANAGEMENT
c O m m i t m e n t
Oracle mst extend energy-saving eorts to all regions so that the sameenergy-perormance criteria apply to all Oracle acilities.
Oracle is working to decrease its
environmental impact by reducing
the amount o energy it uses to heat,
cool, light, and maintain its corporate
oces. In addition to adopting simple
conservation measures such as turning
o monitors overnight, reducing
lighting in hallways and stairwells,
and replacing incandescent lighting
with fuorescent lights, Oracle also
incorporates cutting-edge energy-
saving eatures in the design and
construction o new acilities.
Using Renewable Power
Oracle recognizes the importance
o using renewable sources o energy.
As part o the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agencys (EPA) Green
Power Partnership Program, Oracle
pledged to purchase power rom
renewable sources such as wind, solar,
and geothermal or its Austin, Texas,
data center. Because Oracle committed
to purchasing more than 10 percent
o its power or the data center rom
renewable sourcesar more than the
minimum 3 percent required to be a
certied Green Power partnerthe
EPA has honored it with membership
in the Green Power Leadership Club.
The Austin data center was designed
to include modern energy-saving
eatures such as an airfow management
system that adjusts airfow according
to the number o servers running.
This allows center managers to use the
minimum amount o power necessary
or maintaining suitable conditions orthe equipment.
Rising to the Challenge
Because energy management is a
global issue, Oracles conservation
eorts extend across all regions.
During the Caliornia energy crisis
o 20002001, or example, Oracle
implemented stringent conservation
and eciency measures. As a result,
the company was able to cutenergy usage at its Redwood Shores
headquarters by 10.5 percent in
2001and has continued to achieve
savings o 9.3 percent, 11.5 percent,
and 12.4 percent in 2002, 2003,
and 2004, respectively.
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rom 2000 to 2003, the average monthly se o electricity y each Oracle employee at
headqarters decreased y 20 percent. Alternatively, measred on a per-sqare-oot
asis, the redction or that period was 10 percent.
Dring power emergencies, Oracle is now capale o redcing real-time energy se at
company headqarters y p to 18 percent.
Conservation paysin more than one sense. Oracles energy-eiciency measres not
only eneit the commnity and the environment, t also allowed the company to
save aot uS$2.5 million rom 2001 to 2003.
datacenter
becase Oracle committed to prchasing
more than 10 percent o its power or
the Astin, Texas, data center rom
renewale sorcesar more than
the minimm 3 percent reqired to e
a certiied Green Power partnerthe
EPA has honored it with memership in
the Green Power Leadership Cl.
The Natural Resources Deense
Council (NRDC), in a study o how
Caliornia companies responded to thestatewide energy crisis o 20002001,
cited Oracle or its eorts to reduce
energy demand through acilities
improvements and policy changes.
Oracle has also equipped its
headquarters acilities to reduce
peak-time power demand by up
to 18 percent during power
emergencies. In this way, Oracle
is attempting to do its part to help
the community avoid rollingpower outages.
The company has also hired a Director
o Energy to oversee its ongoing energy
management eorts. This refectsOracles commitment to investigating
and implementing creative solutions to
the global energy challenge.
.
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Q: Why is Oracle producing this report now?
a: Oracle has a long history o doing good work in the communities it serves
around the world, but we havent talked about it very much. While this
report is not a comprehensive listing o our contributions to the community,
we hope the eorts weve highlighted will provide a sense o what we do
and encourage even more people to get involved.
Q: How does this report intersect with what is known as
Corporate Social Responsibility?
a: There has been a growing interest in corporate responsibility and citizenship
issues in recent years, generally reerred to as Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR). However, CSR has traditionally ocused on issuessuch as downstream
labor conditions in the supply chain or waste disposal rom heavy manuacturers
that the enterprise sotware and services industry doesnt really ace. Yet
Oracle does ace a number o challengessuch as workorce preparation,
security, privacyand must consider the needs o our customers, employees,
and host communities.
What you will nd here is a report that refects the issues o the enterprise
sotware industry as opposed to initiatives you might nd in a report rom
a consumer brand or a manuacturing enterprise. Customers, employees,
partners, shareholders, and community representatives are increasingly asking
or this type o inormation. We already have the programs in placeso were
now making the inormation more accessible.
Q + AORACLE PRESIDENT SARA CATZ
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Q: Is a companys approach to corporate citizenship at odds
with its fnancial success?
a: Absolutely not. Being a responsible corporate citizen does not mean losing
ocus on the interests o our shareholders. It means nding intersections between
the needs o our communities and the goals o our company and making
investments that benet both. It also means using our technology to advance
interests in the community.
For example, Oracles Academic Initiative has provided technical training in
72 countries around the worlda US$1.3 billion investment in the uture
prospects o more than 300,000 students. This program not only lays the
groundwork or many successul careers, but it helps us expand the pool o
talent available to support Oracle solutions or our customers. Its a great
example o how good social investment makes good business sense.
Weve made similar investments in our environmental surroundings. Weve
invested in new equipment and changed our business practices to encourage
the ecient, environmentally sound use o energy and resources. As a result,
weve reduced our energy usage at Oracle headquarters or each o the past
three years. Were also using more than 10 percent renewable energy to power
our main data center. We earned back our investment in equipment upgrades
in eight months and are now able to reduce our real-time energy use by up to
18 percent in case o power emergencies.
Our success is magnied by a good relationship with our neighborsthe
customers, partners, and residents o the cities where we operate. We dont shy
away rom supporting the issues that are important to our communities.
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