Oracle today announced that registration for Oracle( OpenWorld San Francisco 2005, to be held September 17-22 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, has opened. This year, the Oracle OpenWorld, PeopleSoft Connect and Retek World conferences have merged into one, integrated event - including all of the content that was available at previous Oracle OpenWorld shows along with content for PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards World and Retek customers.

The event will feature six days of intensive educational programming for business and IT professionals, customers, and partners and showcase the complete Oracle story using the full stack of Oracle technology and applications. Additionally, this year's event will include an impressive line up of industry leaders from Accenture; Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Capgemini; Fujitsu Group; HP; Intel Corporation; Network Appliance, Inc.; Oracle; and Sun Microsystems, Inc.

"Oracle OpenWorld offers our customers and partners a one-stop, highly-charged, educational experience to learn about the latest solutions that address their business needs," said Karen Gainey, vice president of Global Events at Oracle. "This year we are excited to reach out to Oracle, PeopleSoft and Retek users to share our vision and strategy for obtaining the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems."

This highly anticipated event, which attracted more than 25,000 attendees last year, will showcase over 900 technical, business and industry focused sessions and feature more than 250 Oracle partner solutions on the exhibition floor. The conference will also include:

* OpenWorld Extreme, an intensive, two-day experience that will kick off the event, providing deep, drill-down sessions on our applications and technology;
* Over the weekend, we will also host Oracle, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft User Group sessions;
* Exhibits 360, offering an all-encompassing environment to explore, network and purchase the latest solutions from Oracle and our partners;
* Oracle DEMOgrounds featuring over 170 Oracle product demonstrations where attendees can get an inside look at Oracle products, technologies, and services, and;
* Hands-on labs offering in-depth technology training on Oracle technology including Oracle database, application server, application development tools, business intelligence and data warehouse.