What You Need To Know About Oracle License Compliance
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"Follow the link to register for the June 20th webinar “What You Need To Know About Oracle License Compliance” today.

Oracle has built a reputation on providing customers with the most flexible and highly-available database applications on the market. But an Oracle infrastructure requires highly specialized knowledge and clear insight across the database landscape to ensure and monitor license compliance efficiently. Unfortunately, most organizations lack one or the other – or even both – resulting in them failing to meet compliance standards, or more likely, wasting money on unnecessary licensing fees.

Find out how your organization can more efficiently deploy and manage Oracle databases while maintaining compliance and reducing costs. On June 20th, join Matthew Zito, Chief Scientist at GridApp, and Eliot Colon, Senior VP and Partner at Miro Consulting, Inc., for the informational webinar "What You Need to Know About Oracle License Compliance."

This webinar is...

• Complimentary
• Scheduled for 12:00 p.m. EST (9:00 AM PST) Tuesday, June 20.
• Destined to fill up quickly, so register early to reserve your space.
• Presented by GridApp, a leader in comprehensive database infrastructure management, and Miro Consulting, a leader in restructuring, negotiating, and managing Oracle software assets.

Participants will learn how to:

• Simplify the purchasing and deployment of Oracle, particularly Oracle 9i or Oracle 10g RAC.
• Understand the most common mistakes companies make when purchasing Oracle licenses and how to remedy them.
• License compliance pitfalls related to RAC.
• Ensure effective and ongoing monitoring and automation of databases across the Oracle infrastructure.

Who should attend?

• IT executives
• Financial executives
• IT Procurement/Purchasing executives
• Database managers
• Administrators and DBA's
• Systems architects, analysts and consultants

"Register today and you'll also receive the companion white paper “The D2500 Database Grid”.

Click here to obtain -absolutely free and with no obligation- “Miro’s Free Guide to Smarter Oracle Software Licensing”.

"What You Need to Know About Oracle License Compliance." is the fifth webinar in GridApp’s ongoing 2006 webinar series on efficient enterprise database management. For more information on GridApp web-seminars, visit our website at "http://www/gridapp.com/resources/webinars.php ."

About the presenters

Matthew Zito is an expert in large-scale infrastructures, with extensive experience in designing and deploying some of the world's largest system, network and application architectures. Before joining GridApp, Mr. Zito worked at leading information storage company EMC and at Register.com, where he pioneered the use of centralized management and automation to run large production application infrastructures.

Eliot Arlo Colon, Partner and Senior Vice President at Miro Consulting, is responsible for the ongoing development and delivery of Oracle cost containment services for Miro, assisting scores of companies with configuration, negotiation and management of Oracle software licensing contracts. Mr. Colon brings to Miro over fifteen years’ corporate financial management and Fortune 1000 IT consulting experience. Mr. Colon holds a degree in Business from Middlesex College and a degree in Finance from Rowan University.

About GridApp
GridApp Systems is a leader in comprehensive database infrastructure management. Its Clarity(TM) software and D2500 database blade appliance provide an automated, closed-loop solution for performing complex database tasks, enabling centralized control over change management, auditing, encryption and disaster recovery. GridApp Systems is privately held and headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit www.gridapp.com.

About Miro Consulting, Inc.
New Jersey based Miro Consulting ( www.miroconsulting.com) specializes in helping clients to negotiate Oracle licensing and consulting contracts, and to renegotiate existing ones, helping to significantly lower the cost of Oracle ownership for over 200 organizations located primarily throughout North America, including many represented within the Fortune 500. Founded in August 2000, Miro is privately held. NJBIZ magazine recently ranked Miro Consulting one of New Jersey’s 50 Fastest Growing Companies.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® award honors entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hard work and perseverance have created and sustained successful, growing business ventures. Ernst & Young created the program in 1986 in a single Midwestern City in the US; today, E & Y has expanded to more than 125 cities in 40 countries, with awards presented to over 100 of the world's most successful and innovative entrepreneurs. Winners are selected by an independent judging panel in each location. This year’s New Jersey winner will be announced at an awards banquet on June 22, 2006.

For more information, please contact Jill Hellman, Director, Media Relations at (201) 242-1833 or jill.hellman@miroconsulting.com.

June 21, 2006 Ken Saloway to speak to the Canadian IT Asset Management Users' Group (CITAMUG) to be held in Toronto, Ontario.
Website: www.tam-inc.com/canadiansoftware.htm

June 27, 2006 Scott Rosenberg to address the Eastern Canada Regional User Group (ECRUG) and Southern Ontario Oracle Applications User Group (SO- OAUG) User Group Conference to be held in Toronto, Ontario.
Website: www.ecrug.com

July 21, 2006 Ken Saloway to address the New Jersey Oracle Applications User Group (NJOAUG) meeting to be held in Somerset, NJ.
Website: www.njoaug.org

September 12, 2006 Scott Rosenberg to speak to Information Systems and Audit Control Society - Charlotte Chapter meeting to be held in Charlotte, NC.
Website: www.charlotteisaca.org/

October 18-20, 2006 Scott Rosenberg to address the IAITAM 2006 Annual Conference & Exhibition to be held in Cleveland, OH.
Website: www.iaitam.org