News Brief from OraWorld (www.oraworld.com)
Date: 1998/09/04
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OraWorld News Update
Friday, Sept. 4, 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.
- USA RESIDENTS: CALL NOW AND RECEIVE 25% OFF YOUR DBA EXAM PRICES! Hurry -- this offer is good only until September 30, 1998.
- ORAWORLD'S CAREER CORNER
This week, OraWorld showcases:
- California Job Search Guide
- Home Fair Salary Calculator Site
- ORACLE RELEASES APPLICATION SERVER 4.0 Oracle recently unveiled version 4.0 of Oracle Application Server, which is intended to give users a central server from which they can deploy and manage all applications used within an organization.
- NEW ORACLE SERVICE TO LEASE SPACE TO USERS OVER INTERNET Oracle disclosed that it will soon offer a new outsourcing service for small and medium-size businesses that do not want to handle their own Oracle database and applications in-house.
- ORACLE ANNOUNCES NEW WEBDB TOOL Next month, Oracle will launch the WebDB tool, which promises to ease access and maintenance chores for Oracle databases by letting users access and maintain sites themselves
- ORACLE TO ACQUIRE VERSATILITY Oracle acquired Versatility this week, which Oracle hopes will bring a solid call center solution with outbound telesales and telemarketing functionality to complement Oracle's inbound service call center application.
- ORACLE ANSWERS MICROSOFT ACCESS BUG WITH MIGRATION PROGRAM No sooner had Microsoft announced that there was a bug in its Access 97 software than Oracle released a migration program to help users move their data to "proven, safe" Oracle databases.
- ANIMATED LEARNING ANNOUNCES TRAINING CD-ROM
Animated Learning, Inc. announced the availability of its OraWorld
Courseware Kit for Oracle7 & Oracle8 on CD-ROM. The sophisticated
multimedia courseware kit of over 80 hours trains database
administrators and application developers how to use Oracle, and helps
prepare students for Oracle's OCP certified professional exams.
UPCOMING ORACLE EVENTS
(for a complete listing of events,
visit http://www.oraworld.com/events.htm)
Oct. 25 - 29
Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG) Conference Fall
Honolulu Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
1.404.240.0999
http://www.oaug.org/hawaii/hawconf.html
Nov. 3 - 5
Database & Client/Server World - Building Enterprise Solutions
Chicago, Illinois
http://www.dci.com/database/
Nov. 8 - 13
Oracle OpenWorld '98
Moscone Convention Center
San Francisco, California
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/seminars_and_events/openworld/
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