News for week of Oct. 13

ORAWORLD NEWS
October 13, 1997

TOP STORIES Following are abstracts of the top stories for this week. Please visit http://www.oraworld.com/news.htm for the full text of these stories.

• ORACLE SETS NEW TPC-C BENCHMARK RECORD Oracle and Sun team up again to blaze new trails and outperform Microsoft by 331%, IBM DB2 by 106%, Informix by 105%, and Sybase by 31%.
• REASON #12,763 WHY YOU SHOULD BE GLAD YOU CHOSE ORACLE Today there's yet another reason why you should be very glad that you chose Oracle over Microsoft (hopefully, you did). Users of Microsoft's SQL Server database who want to upgrade to the next major release have a major task ahead of them.
• ORACLE PRODUCTS WIN TWO MAGAZINE AWARDS
• INTEL AND NCI (ORACLE) PROPOSE DIGITAL TV STANDARD Intel shuns Microsoft and backs Network Computer Inc.'s digital cable-TV standard.
• ORACLE LEARNS FROM APPLE COMPUTER MODEL AND GIVES HIGHER EDUCATION $50 MILLION In the 1980s, Apple gave millions of dollars worth of computers to higher education, and got millions of people rabidly behind its computers. Is Oracle planning the same thing?
• ORACLE'S NEW TOOLS STRATEGY Oracle announced its new Java IDE (integrated development environment) and Object Database Designer (a new data modeling tool specifically for object-oriented/object-relational databases that you can build with Oracle8). Learn more about these tools, as well as Oracle's tools strategy through 1999 at http://www.oraworld.com/intervie.htm.
• FREE ORACLE7 AND ORACLE8 TRAINING Test drive OraWorld's training courseware for Oracle Server at http://www.oraworld.com/train.htm.
• To view what's new on the OraWorld site as of October 7, 1997, visit http://www.oraworld.com/newstuff.htm.

EXTRAS FOR ORAWORLD MEMBERS!

• OraWorld visited Steve Illingworth, Senior Marketing Manager Developer/2000 and DSS Tools, who told us Oracle's in-depth tools strategy. This interview will be posted starting October 8, 1997. Visit http://www.oraworld.com/intervie.htm to find out how Oracle's tools strategy will affect your systems.
• In Guy Harrison's technical article titled, "Using and Optimizing Star Joins," you'll find out about optimizing simple star queries, optimizing the simple star join, advanced star optimization, star transformation, and limitations of Oracle star joins. Visit http://www.oraworld.com/members.htm to access this article, or visit http://www.oraworld.com/subscrib.htm to find out more about becoming an OraWorld member.

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CONFERENCE CALENDAR October 13 - 15
17th Annual Conference On Control, Audit & Security Of Information Systems: Building A Technical Bridge To The Future Contact: MIS Training Institute
Phone: 508.879.7999

October 14
Intranets: Infrastructure, Applications, and Organization Chicago
Phone: 1.800.945.6382
http://www.metagroup.com

October 22 - 24
The Integrated Office Conference 97
San Diego, California
Phone: 1.619.447.1127
http://www.mfpa.org

October 23 - 24
Data Warehouse/Information Warehouse Seminars London, England
Phone: +44.181.741.1922
email 100144.1553_at_compuserve.com

October 24 - 26
Computer Show 97
Victoria, British Columbia
Phone: 1.604.380.1545
http://www.vicnet.net/~viex

November 2 - 5
ODTUG Fall '97 Conference
Contact: Oracle Development Tools User Group Headquarters Phone: 1.910.452.7444
http://www.odtug.org

Nov. 2 - 5
Web IT 97
Scottsdale, Arizona
1.800.652.2578,
fax 1.212.869.2110,
or www.kingbird.com

November 3 - 7
NGN97: Next Generations Networks
Arlington, Virginia
Phone: 1.800.227.1234
http://www.bcr.com/confer/ngn97/ngn97.htm

November 10 - 14
Oracle OpenWorld - India
Contact: Oracle
Phone: 1.800.304.4664
http://www.oracle.com

November 17 - 19
Data Warehouse Modeling: Key To Decision Support Success Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Phone: 1.301.762.1288
email barnettds_at_aol.com

Nov. 17 - 21
Comdex/Fall 97
Las Vegas, Nevada
1.617.433.1650
www.comdex.com

December 9
Intranets: Mission-Critical Applications Phone: 1.617.956.5000
http://www.yankeegroup.com/calendar.hml Received on Mon Oct 13 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT