OraWorld News Update 11 June
Date: 1998/06/11
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Subject:
OraWorld Email News Update
Date:
Thursday, June 11, 1998
From:
emailnews_at_oraworld.com
News Brief from
OraWorld: Everything Oracle on the World Wide Web
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.
- ORAWORLD'S CAREER CORNER
This week, OraWorld tells you:
- CareerPath: Here you'll find a keyword-searchable index of the Sunday employment classified advertisements from 5 major newspapers. Most of the advanced services are available only to registered users; however, registration is free. This site is an outstanding resource.
- Online Career Center: Contains a searchable database, or you can browse jobs by location or professional area.
- Datamasters: Includes U.S. cost-of-living comparisons for 399 U.S. job markets! Also includes an online resume generator.
- ORACLE UPDATES DATABASE CLUSTERING SOFTWARE FOR NT Although Oracle8 was released nearly a year ago, until now Oracle's clustering software has only been available for Oracle7. The new releases of Oracle Parallel Server and Oracle FailSafe promise to improve the reliability and scalability of Oracle8 on NT.
- TRAIL VERSION OF ORACLE8 SHIPPING WITH IBM NETFINITY SERVERS Oracle and IBM announced that a trial license of Oracle8 database server software will come with IBM Netfinity servers, IBM's line of Intel processor-based servers that are designed to run the Windows NT network operating system. This trial license allows IBM Netfinity customers to try Oracle8 free of charge for 60 days.
- ORACLE AND HP TEAM UP FOR NCA AND ERP Oracle and Hewlett-Packard announced a program to offer joint customers service agreements that guarantee a 99.95 percent uptime for those using Oracle's Network Computing Architecture (NCA.) Oracle and HP also announced a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) application bundle, which includes Oracle's ERP and financial applications loaded on the HP NetServer LXr Pro rack-mounted for NT shops and HP 9000 for Unix users.
- SAP #1, PEOPLESOFT #2, AND ORACLE #3 IN ERP MARKET PeopleSoft overtook Oracle in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) application market in 1997, while SAP continued to hold its commanding lead over all other players, according to a new study by research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).
- ORACLE AND 3COM PLAN MOBILE HANDHELD PCS Oracle has a big presence with big companies with big servers. Now Oracle wants to make a name for itself in the handheld PC server market, and its got 3Com to help it do so.
- INFORMIX OFFERS FREE NT DATABASE
Why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free? Starting June 15
and lasting until the end of the year, Informix plans to offer a free
license for its Dynamic Server database. Get it while you can.
UPCOMING ORACLE EVENTS
(for a complete listing of events, visit http://www.oraworld.com/events.htm)
June 23 - 25
Database and Client/Server World
Hynes Convention Center
Boston, Massachusetts
1.978.470.3880
http://www.dci.com/database
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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