News Brief from www.oraworld.com
Date: 1998/06/25
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OraWorld News Brief
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Thursday, June 25, 1998
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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.
- CALL NOW AND RECEIVE 25% OFF YOUR DBA EXAM PRICES! Hurry -- this offer is good only until September 30, 1998. And while you're at it, you can also receive a 25% discount off the regular price of $99.99 for the "Oracle Certified Professional DBA Certification Exam" book from Oracle Press.
- ORAWORLD'S CAREER CORNER
This week, OraWorld showcases:
- 1998 IT Compensation Survey for a leading industry magazine
- Play the "What am I Worth" Game with this Interactive Salary Calculator.
- Are recent computer science graduates making too much?
- The job sounds good, but is the company right for you?
- ORACLE REPORTS RECORD FISCAL 1998, FOURTH QUARTER EARNINGS Oracle reported its fourth quarter and year end earnings, beating analysts expectations. Oracle is now a $7.1 billion dollar company, up 26% from FY 1997.
- ORACLE UPDATES FREE DATABASE CONFIGURATION TOOL Oracle released a new version of its database-sizing tool for configuring databases, Oracle System Sizer 3.0. It's available for download now.
- ORACLE ANNOUNCES UPGRADED DEVELOPER SUITE AND LOTS OF NAME CHANGES Oracle announced Enterprise Developer Suite Release 2.1 (formerly known as Oracle Web Developer Suite), an upgrade of its suite of development tools and servers for building applications, which includes its newly renamed Designer/2000 and Developer/2000 tools.
- ORACLE SHIPS ORACLE VIDEO SERVER 3.0 (INCLUDES LINK TO PRODUCT REVIEW) Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Video Server 3.0, software that works with Oracle7 or Oracle8 for storing, managing, and delivering high-quality full-screen video and CD-quality audio to the home and desktop.
- MICROSOFT INTRODUCES VISUAL BASIC UPGRADE (INCLUDES LINK TO PRODUCT REVIEW) Microsoft unveiled an upgrade to Visual Basic, adding features for easier data access and simpler application deployment.
- ARBOR ADDS SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE DATABASES TO OLAP SERVER
Arbor Software Corp. has begun testing a version of its OLAP server that
works with data stored in relational database management systems,
including Oracle.
UPCOMING ORACLE EVENTS
(for a complete listing of events, visit http://www.oraworld.com/events.htm)
July 6 - 8
Sixteenth British National Conference on Databases
University of Wales
Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Bncod16/
July 6 - 9
International Workshop on Issues and Applications of Database Technology
(IADT'98)
Berlin, Germany
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~oulusoy/iadt.html
July 21 - 24
Oracle Internet Conference
Geneva, Switzerland
http://isoc.org/inet98/
Oct. 25 - 29
Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG) Conference Fall
Honolulu Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
1.404.240.0999
http://www.oaug.com
Nov. 8 - 13
Oracle OpenWorld '98
Moscone Convention Center
San Francisco, California
http://www.oracle.com
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