Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
August 5, 2026
Published in conjunction with the Quest Oracle Community (Quest), this bi-weekly publication contains news, market research, and insight for the Oracle ecosystem, as well as Quest news and information. Subscribers also receive Quest ResearchWire, a bi-monthly research report for the Oracle community.
News Flashes
Oracle announced Oracle AI Database 26ai now includes EBCDIC compatibility capabilities that address two fundamental challenges of preserving EBCDIC compatibility: accurate character encoding conversion and preservation of EBCDIC binary ordering.
Oracle and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to bring Google's Gemini models to Oracle's extensive portfolio of enterprise applications. The collaboration builds on customers' existing access to Gemini models through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Enterprise AI and is planned to make Gemini models available in Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, a complete development platform that enables organizations to build, connect, execute, and run AI automation and agentic applications using reusable Oracle, partner, and external agents, according to the companies.
Oracle has been awarded a 10-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the U.S. Department of War (DoW) Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI), with a base value of $3.31 billion for the first five years of the agreement and a total value of $6.99 billion if option years are exercised.
Think About It
With every organization currently wondering if their data is sufficient for AI, closing the gap between data ambition and operational reality requires more than just a technical roadmap. It requires the strategic discipline to translate major pain points into a narrative leadership can fund.