News From OraWorld, April 8, 1998

Wednesday, April 8, 1998, 10:00 a.m. PST news_at_oraworld.com

ORACLE NEWS FROM ORAWORLD 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 all of these stories.

ORAWORLD’S CAREER CORNER
This month, OraWorld tells you where to go to find out what color your parachute is, contract and permanent positions all over the U.S., computer job listings and a free resume bank, and who the tech world's most desirable employers are.

ORACLE REORGANIZES AND REFOCUSES APPLICATIONS UNIT In what may be seen as a demotion for senior VP Ron Wohl, CEO Larry Ellison is becoming more directly involved in Oracle’s applications unit, reorganizing responsibilities and restructuring the group after its second disappointing sales quarter.

ORACLE PLANS TO REWRITE APPLICATION SUITE AS JAVA COMPONENTS Oracle’s plans to rewrite its entire application suite as a collection of Java components will be unveiled at next month's Oracle Applications User Group conference in San Diego. The rewrite is to be made possible by an update of Oracle's Designer/2000 modeling tool.

ORACLE TO BE BUNDLED WITH NOVELL NETWARE Oracle and Novell Inc. announced a bundling agreement that will provide Novell's NetWare users with Oracle8. A five-user version of Oracle8 will be bundled with versions of NetWare 4.11 and the upcoming 5.0 version.

ORACLE DISCOVERER 3.1 GOES TO BETA
Oracle announces the beta version of Oracle Discoverer 3.1, Oracle's ad hoc query, analysis, and reporting tool that lets users drill down to increasingly detailed levels of data to actual database transactions.

ORACLE CLINICAL 3.1 AVAILABLE NOW
Oracle reported the availability of the new release of its clinical data-management solution, Oracle Clinical, designed to support the management of data collected during clinical trials. Oracle Clinical 3.1 includes many new enhanced features.

ORACLE APP SERVER TO SUPPORT SECURE COMMUNICATION Oracle Corp. and Consensus Development Corp. announced the licensing of Consensus Development's SSL Plus toolkit for use in Oracle's Internet products. Oracle Application Server 4.0 will use SSL Plus, Consensus Development's Secure Socket Layer (SSL) network security technology.

CALL FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS, UTILITIES/SHAREWARE, AND TIPS & TRICKS Do you have a Oracle technical paper you’d like to publish? An Oracle utility that you’ve developed that you’d like to share with your peers? A Oracle-related workaround or time-saving tip/trick that you know would benefit other users? Get it published on the Web!

ORACLE OPENWORLD ’98 CALL FOR PAPERS
Complete information (including the submission form) regarding the Oracle OpenWorld ’98 Call For Papers process is now posted on the Oracle OpenWorld Web site. Visit OraWorld for more information.

• ORAWORLD LAUNCHES NEW DEDICATED CAREER CORNER WEB PAGE Read all the past OraWorld Career Corners in one place! With this new page, OraWorld helps you get ahead in the high-tech world! Visit http://www.oraworld.com/career.htm.
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UPCOMING ORACLE EVENTS
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