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              PUBLICATION:  Oracle Technical Journal 5
                    THEME:  "Oracle in Open Systems"
               PAPERS DUE:  November 15, 1992

The Oracle Technical Journal, published twice a year, allows Oracle users throughout the world to benefit from the knowledge and insight of their peers. An internationally distributed volume, the 200-page Journal is completely edited, published, and distributed by the International Oracle Users Group. Past authors have included respected members of the user community as well as technical specialists from within Oracle Corporation.

The fifth issue of the Journal will emphasize the use of Oracle products in multi-vendor, standards-based environments that characterize "open systems." Journal 5 will be released in the first quarter of 1993. (The theme of the current issue, Journal 4, is Oracle CASE technology.)

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED in writing a paper, please contact the editor before October 15, 1992 to receive detailed author's guidelines.

EDITOR:  William L. Pribyl            Internet: wlp_at_hounix.org
         DataCraft, Inc.            Compuserve:70451,2315
         PO Box 980669                   Voice:(713)667-7100
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[In this publication, "open systems" are defined to include components
(hardware, operating systems, database managers, network protocols, etc.) whose
specifications are either defined by a standards body or published freely by a vendor. In either case, the specification should be widely adopted in the industry. Articles on Oracle-related topics other than open systems will be accepted for publication as well.]

APPLICATION TOOLS. What application development tools work well in an open systems environment that includes an Oracle server? What has your experience been in building applications to survive the interchange of system components
(for example, exchanging one Unix computer for another)?

END-USER TOOLS. What sort of front-end reporting and analysis capability do you give end-users in an open systems environment? For example, what system configurations provide a good ability to pull Oracle data from multiple servers into a desktop spreadsheet?

STANDARDS. What standards (such as X/Open, POSIX, Unix, SQL, TCP/IP, X/Motif) does your company endorse? Where do the standards work, and where do they break down? How well do de facto standards from specific vendors (Windows 3.1, Netware, DOS) integrate with Oracle? What edge does ORACLE7 give in this area?

OPERATING SYSTEMS. Last year, more than half or Oracle Corporation's revenue was generated in the Unix market. How does your company squeeze the most performance out of Oracle under Unix? How reasonable is it to mix different vendors' Unix on a network of Oracle clients and servers? Have you integrated ORACLE7 with a standard transaction processing monitor such as Tuxedo?

NETWORKS. What problems have you solved in joining like (or dislike) protocols from multiple vendors? What type of system and network architectures work well with SQL*Net, especially version 2? What about other network-intensive jobs such as remote database backup, remote printing, and E-mail?

ECONOMICS. If you quantify the costs and benefits of moving to open systems, are they truly more economical? Where are the unexpected costs, for example, troubleshooting a multi-vendor problem?

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William L. Pribyl                 |
Independent Oracle Consultant     |  Internet:  wlp_at_hounix.org
Editor, Intl Oracle Tech Journal  |     or   :  70451.2315_at_compuserve.com