The Oracle E-Business Suite currently works with clients running Mac OS 9.0.4 with Macintosh Runtime for Java (MRJ) 2.2.3.

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At Oracle, Ray served senior product management roles in the E-Business Suite.

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The most recent iteration of the big-ticket package, Oracle's E-Business Suite, is a set of business applications designed to work with a single database.

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Mr Ellison argues that the e-business suite standardises data, putting it in one database where it can be manipulated by a complete and integrated suite of applications.

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What this means in practice is that Oracle will gladly replace all the different software systems now used by a typical firm many of which cannot talk to each other without further heavy spending with its all-singing, all-dancing e-business suite.

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Indeed, Mr Ellison boasts that his enthusiasm for being a chief executive has been rekindled by the power he gained as a result of deploying the e-business suite within Oracle and thus gaining better, more timely information on which to base decisions.

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