Welcome to the 2010 Oracle Professionals' Challenges and Priorities Survey. Almost 450 Oracle professionals answered survey questions that SearchOracle.com asked them earlier this year. The results give insight into Oracle professionals' opinions on a host of different subject areas: databases, applications, hardware, support, and virtualization, just to name a few.

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