One of the best-kept secrets in the IT industry is the depth of support Oracle offers to customers deploying its databases on Microsoft Windows platforms. While many focus on Oracle's support of Linux, Oracle was the first of the major database vendors to port its software to Windows in the mid- 1990s, and continues to support a large and robust Oracle-on-Windows user community. This white paper discusses the Windows integration capabilities of Oracle, topics include:

• Leveraging Windows Server's Active Directory and security framework
• Leveraging Windows Server's hardware support features
• Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET)
• Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET