ISV and OEM partners may useOracleuse Oracle technology as components within their special purpose applications, devices and equipment. These productsOften, oftenthese needproductsneed to run unattended, managing themselves and managing data locally,locally in a self-contained manner.

Developers can choose from a broad selection of Oracle databasesdatabase and middleware,middleware andsoftware to embed the product that best fitssuits their requirements. TheCommonly, use cases for embedding are very diverse,diverse and rangingrange from mobile software to desktop applications to enterpriseapplications,enterprise applicationsapplications, tocarrier-gradecarrier-grade services, from networking equipment toequipment, appliances, instrumentation, and machinery.

Advantages of embedding Oracle technology:

• Enables ISV/OEMs to deliver more complete solutions to their customers, with lower TCO in terms of acquisition costs, implementation costs and maintenance costs
• Accelerates time to market, and lowers development cost and risk by using proven products from Oracle
• Delivers a variety technical advantages for the ISV/OEM's product in performance, scalability and availability

Oracle Embeddable products include:

• Oracle Database
• Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
• Oracle Berkeley DB
• Oracle Database Lite
• Oracle Application Server
• Oracle Coherence Data Grid
• Oracle Outside In Technology
• Oracle BPEL Process Manager
• Oracle Identity Management
• Oracle Service Delivery Platform

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