Baseline's Look Ahead, Week of Sept. 18

News and events to watch for the week.

EARNINGS ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sept. 19: Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) to report results for its fiscal first quarter 2007, at 5 p.m. Eastern.

Sept. 21: 3Com (Nasdaq: COMS) to report results for its fiscal first quarter 2007, at 5 p.m. Eastern.

CONFERENCES THIS WEEK

Sept. 17-20: SIMposium 2006, Dallas. Produced by the Society for Information Management. Scheduled speakers include Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Department Secretary, and Ray Kurzweil, inventor, entrepreneur and author.

Sept. 17-21: HP Technology Forum, Houston.

Sept. 17-21: Teradata Partners User Group Conference, "Unleashing Enterprise Intelligence," at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotels in Orlando, Fla. The data warehousing and business intelligence conference will provide 180 sessions, attracting an expected 3,000 attendees.

Sept. 18-22: Interop networking show, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Sept. 19-21: Biometrics TechExpo, Baltimore.

Sept. 19-21: Storage World Conference Fall 2006, Boston.

Sept. 20-21: VentureWire's Datacenter Ventures 2006, The Fairmont, San Jose, Calif.