The development of the DPLS is only one of a multitude of charitable efforts initiated by Oracle.

These invaluable interventions have occurred in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and many other cities.

I am certain that my colleagues are familiar with the extraordinary success of Oracle Corporation of Redwood Shores, California.

One recent illustration of exemplary corporate citizenship also demonstrated Oracle's information technology prowess and its application to public service.

Oracle quickly responded by developing the Displaced Persons Linking System (DPLS), an innovative program which has greatly assisted relief workers in reuniting lost family members.

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Balkans... has left hundreds of thousands of refugees with husbands separated from wives and families and parents separated from their children.

An additional charitable venture, Oracle's Promise, is helping to better the lives of children here at home.

Oracle is currently installing hundreds of network computers in Israeli and Palestinian cities... to link children of both people to the Internet and to foster communication between them.

I am certain that my colleagues are familiar with the extraordinary success of Oracle Corporation of Redwood Shores, California.

Oracle's status as a corporate role model, however, rests on far more than its supremacy in the field of information technology.

Desperate to ease the plight of lost family members, the American Red Cross turned to Oracle for an Internet-based solution.

Oracle's outstanding humanitarian efforts were noted by the Acting President of the American Red Cross, Steve Bullock.