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ORAWORLD NEWS
October 21, 1997

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TOP STORIES
Following are abstracts of the top stories for this week.

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• ORACLE ANNOUNCES ITS PLANS FOR ORACLE7 SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT When will Oracle wrap up scheduled developments of Oracle7, and what type of support will it provide for your existing Oracle7 databases? Ken Jacobs, vice president of product strategy at Oracle, lets you know.
• ORACLE SALES SOFTWARE DEBUTS Oracle released its new sales force automation suite, Oracle Sales and Marketing (OSM). OSM also offers complete support for direct marketing and campaign management.
• ORACLE REVISES REPORTED EARNINGS Oracle is reworking the accounting for its August acquisition of Treasury Services Corp. to give the company better long-term earnings.
• IQ SOFTWARE ACQUIRES INTERSOLV TOOLS IQ Software announced its purchase of two products from Intersolv Inc. -- DataDirect Explorer and DataDirect SmartData, along with their related technology.
• QUEST ACQUIRES SQL NAVIGATOR FROM TECHNOSOLUTIONS CORP. Quest Software Inc., announced the acquisition of SQL Navigator from TechnoSolutions Corp. SQL Navigator is a server-side development tool for SQL and PL/SQL applications on Oracle databases.
• DBMS MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES 1997 READERS' CHOICE AWARD WINNERS Winners of the annual DBMS Readers' Choice Awards were announced this week by DBMS Editor-in-Chief, Maurice Frank. Surprise, surprise, Oracle topped the list of winners.
• Guy Harrison has kindly let OraWorld house his ORACLE TUNING TOOL UTILITIES, check out http://www.oraworld.com/utilitie.htm for more information about these tools, and to download them.
• 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 20, 1997, visit http://www.oraworld.com/newstuff.htm.

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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. Visit http://www.oraworld.com/intervie.htm to find out Oracle's tools and Java strategy through 1999.

• 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.

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CONFERENCE CALENDAR 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

November 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.h l

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