In snapshot you can see, 1st half of each year will have Fix Pack delivery where Oracle will provide bug fixes and 2nd half of each year will have Innovation pack which provides innovations and enhancements.

Investment Strategy by Oracle:
Oracle is mainly focusing on
1)    Customer Experience
2)    Industry Innovation
3)    Lower implementation and maintenance cost
Customer Experience
We all know that Siebel was not very good in term of Customer Experience but with Open UI, Oracle has enhanced users experience and productivity a lot.

• Open UI supports any standard browser and any device
• Supports user specific look and feel UI
• Coexists with existing siebel architecture and investment
• Enhanced mobile application
• Online/Offline support
• Device reorganization and signature capture
• Redesign siebel ‘Out-of-box’ user interfaces like Dispatch board, chat, eservice
• Map integration, camera support, multi tab support
• Integration with social profile, supports ‘Big Data’
• Improved loyalty management

Industry Innovation

• Open UI has specialized line-of business applications
• Improved mobile application for financial services
• Redesigned eService application in Open UI to incorporate enhanced self service capabilities, reduce clicks, drill downs

Lower implementation and maintenance cost
Open UI supports existing Siebel architecture, also Oracle has introduced Incremental Repository Merge which reduces the Upgradation cost. It reduces the initial install size and time by 50%.
Siebel Upgrade Momentum:

Almost 90% customers are using Siebel 8.0 or higher version. Also all top brands from various verticals are using Siebel to run their business and number is still growing. Here is a snapshot below of siebel customers.

So come out from the rumor that Siebel is not alive anymore and keep learning. Oracle has a strong and rich product roadmap upto 2020+.

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• USB drive works fine and we can see the device in ‘My Computer’
• USB drive is displayed in ‘Disk drives’ under device manager
• But either ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ icon is missing from task bar or right click on the ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ icon does not show any option to remove USB device safely or ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ is not working fine

Solution: Windows Vista/7 does not need clicking on the ‘Safely Remove hardware’ anymore, every time you unplug the device unless OS default setting is changed. In Vista or windows 7, USB drives use ‘Quick removal’ option where internal hardware uses ‘Better performance’ and enables write caching in Windows. To check which option is enabled for your USB drive, perform below steps: 

• With USB drive plugged in, right click on ‘My computer’ icon and click on Properties
• On the Properties tab, select ‘Device Manager’ on the left hand sidebar
• Locate ‘Disk drives’ and expand it on the ‘Device Manager’ popup
• Right click on the USB drive and select Properties
• Under ‘Policies’ tab, there will be two option with ‘Quick Removal’ option selected