Oracle News

*Oracle Web Apps to Debut
InfoWorld (Mar. 25. p1) leaked the news, on the front cover, that Oracle is set to introduce three innovative WWW apps designed to strengthen links to corporate intranets. Oracle Web Employees, Oracle Web Customers, and Oracle Web Supplier are all aimed at large corporate IS shops and "will link internal users and external customers to applications running on the company's Oracle7 database and Oracle Web Server. The apps are built on top of Oracle's client/server applications with the added benefit of running over the WWW." Look for details when these products are officially announced at Oracle Applications User Group in Orlando, FL the week of April 22, 1996.

The 64-Bit Question . . . Oracle Has the Winning Answer VAR Business (Mar. 15, p64) ran an extensive article on the powerful 64-bit systems now making their presence felt in the marketplace. Oracle is front and center in the article, with the news that TPC-C benchmarks on 64-bit DEC Alpha servers run more than 100 times faster than on 32-bit systems. Oracle is also featured prominently in a sidebar article highlighting Best Western International's use of Alpha 8400 servers running Oracle7. Best Western's consultant group, Vagus Technologies says the BW data warehouse could easily top 500 gigabytes.

Oracle's Analytical Processing Takes Leap Forward Oracle's enhanced capabilities for online analytical processing (OLAP) were covered in Communications Week (Mar. 25, p16), which highlighted updates to Oracle Express' development environment. Oracle Express Objects 2.0 and Oracle Express Analyzer let developers and users take advantage of previous application code and modify it for new purposes. Both products are available now on the Windows 95 and NT platforms. Joe Robles, CFO of the U.S. Automobile Association said "This will enable us to develop customized financial applications that can be accessed by senior executives and managers from their PCs across the enterprise." Oracle's OLAP products are a significant competitive advantage--no one has a better story to sell than we do!

Oracle's On-Line Object Outlet
VAR Business (Mar. 15, p56) says Oracle is cozying up to software VARs with the opening of Objects.us.oracle.com, a new avenue for VARs to post and sell objects developed with Oracle Power Objects. Oracle will test custom-created objects that VARs and developers wish to sell on-line and in the words of one VAR, "It could become a useful resource for software VARs. This will give developers of custom applications an edge because they will start out with this repository." Received on Sun May 05 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST