News week of Oct. 7th

ORAWORLD NEWS
October 7, 1997

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 these stories.

• Oracle Announces Its Own DBA Certification Exam For those of you who missed the 30th September email, Oracle announced its own DBA certification program called the OCP (Oracle Certified Professional) program. Visit http://www.oraworld.com/dbaexam.htm for all the information you need to know about how to become an Oracle certified DBA.
• Oracle to Integrate Publish/Subscribe Software into Server Oracle Corp. and Tibco Software Inc. announced a comprehensive technology licensing agreement that allows Oracle to embed Tibco's TIB/Rendezvous publish/subscribe messaging software into Oracle's product line.
• Oracle's Internet Commerce Server to Enable I-Commerce Site Hosting An upcoming version of Oracle's Internet Commerce Server will provide Internet-commerce site-hosting ability to Internet service providers and other companies.
• Oracle Supports IBM's S70 RS/6000 Server Oracle Corp. announced support of IBM's 64-bit S70 RS/6000 server.
• Oracle Dedicates New Portland Development Center Oracle announced that its newly formed Portland Development Center will focus on software development for Oracle's Application Server Division.
• Oracle, CompuWare, Platinum, and Technosolutions Announce Integrated Visual Development Tools for PL/SQL
• Oracle Unveils New Tools Strategy to Bring Java to the Enterprise The plan focuses on expanding Oracle's offerings to provide an integrated toolset to develop applications for the network computing platform.
• Oracle is Leader in OLAP Benchmarks Oracle continues to demonstrate its lead in decision-support solutions (DSS) by announcing new results for the Analytical Processing Benchmark-1 (APB-1).
• Oracle NCs Will Link to Windows Network Computer Inc., an Oracle subsidiary that makes server software for network computers, announced that it will bundle Star Division's StarOffice suite with its server software.
• Platinum Technology Plans Shipment of Application Development Management Tool Platinum Technology announced a decision-support tool called Platinum Advisor, designed to help application development teams complete projects on time and within budget.
• Embarcadero Announces 32-bit DBArtisan 4.0 This upgraded version promotes greater levels of database availability, performance, and security in distributed multi-vendor production environments.
• To view what's new on the OraWorld site as of October 7, 1997, visit http://www.oraworld.com/newstuff.htm.

EXTRAS FOR ORAWORLD MEMBERS

• OraWorld visited Steve Illingworth, Senior Marketing Manager Developer/2000 and DSS Tools, who told us Oracle's in-depth tools strategy. This interview will be posted starting October 8, 1997. Visit http://www.oraworld.com/intervie.htm to find out how Oracle's tools strategy will affect your systems.
• In Guy Harrison's technical article titled, "Using and Optimizing Star Joins," you'll find out about optimizing simple star queries, optimizing the simple star join, advanced star optimization, star transformation, and limitations of Oracle star joins. Visit http://www.oraworld.com/members.htm to access this article, or visit http://www.oraworld.com/subscrib.htm to find out more about becoming an OraWorld member.

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