Oracle-Related Technical Information

Top Oracle-Related Stories for the Week of September 29th, 1997

• At Open World in Los Angeles last week, Oracle announced its own DBA certification program: the Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Program. Visit http://www.oraworld.com/dbaexam.htm to find out more about this program.
• Java was Oracle’s main focus last week at Open World in Los Angeles. Following are the important highlights from the show (visit http://www.oraworld.com/news.htm for the full stories):
  • New Java features planned for Oracle8 version 8.1.
  • Two new components for Enterprise Manager previewed.
    • Oracle provides details on several new Oracle Applications products and initiatives, including Oracle Applications Release 11.
  • Oracle announces the availability of Oracle Sales Analyzer and Financial Analyzer for Sun Solaris.
  • Fujitsu is developing a Cobol cartridge that Oracle plans to include with its Web Application Server. The Fujitsu Cobol Cartridge will include a set of standard Cobol APIs that enable Oracle Web Application Server functions to be invoked directly from within Cobol programs.
  • Oracle to offer Java development tool built with Borland’s JBuilder.
  • Oracle Interoffice 4.1 to ship in November.
  • Open Gateway Suite Enables Access to Sybase and Microsoft Data from any NT Machine
  • Oracle’s Fail Safe offers availability and failover protection for Windows NT clusters.
  • Personal Oracle Lite 3.0 supports Java-based stored procedures and triggers, Java objects, and Java access to the database. Surprisingly, Oracle Lite supports stored procedures and triggers written in Java only--there is no support for PL/SQL.
• To view what’s new, visit http://www.oraworld.com/newstuff.htm.

Interested in Oracle7 or Oracle8 training? You can take a free test drive of three training modules for Oracle Server at http://www.oraworld.com/train.htm. Received on Thu Oct 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST