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$Date: 24-Apr-2000 $
$Revision: 1.32 $
$Author: Frank Naudé $

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  • What is new in Oracle 8i Release2?
  • What is new in Oracle 8.i?
  • Oracle renamed all development tools
  • Oracle will release their Oracle8 database software on Intel Linux!!!
  • Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Designer/2000 R2.1
  • New features in Oracle8.0.4
  • What is new in Oracle8.0?
  • What is new in Oracle Developer/2000 Release 2.0?
  • What is new in Oracle Mobile Agents V2.0?
  • Oracle Power Objects V2.0?
  • What is Oracle WebForms?
  • What is new in WebServer 3.0?
  • Is Oracle's NCA an ActiveX buster?
  • Oracle Enterprise Manager for Windows95
  • August 1996: Oracle8 entered beta testing
  • Will Oracle be JAVA enabled?
  • What's new in Oracle7.3?
  • Other sources of Oracle related news

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    What is new in Oracle 8i Release2?

    The following new features will be available in Oracle 8i Release2 (Oracle8.1.6):

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  • What is new in Oracle8.i?

    The following new features will be available in Oracle8.1 (code-named Emerald). Oracle8.1 is expected to ship 1Q 1999.

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  • Oracle renamed all development tools

    Oracle renamed all of it's development tools, their new names are:

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  • Oracle will release their Oracle8 database software on Intel Linux!!!

    Oracle recently announced that they will release their Oracle8 software on the Linux Intel platform. This announcement was made after some major database vendors like Sybase and Informix reported that they will make their database software available on Linux. Oracle8 for Linux is planned for shipment by end of 1998. Shipment of Oracle Applications for Linux is expected in the first quarter of 1999.

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  • Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Designer/2000 R2.1

    Oracle Corp. announced Oracle(R) Designer/2000(TM) Release 2.1 and Oracle Developer/2000(TM) Release 2.1, enabling dramatically increased productivity for the database application developer. The new features of Oracle's flagship application development environment allow developers, for the first time, to model and automatically generate 100% of their applications. Automatic code generation is designed to produce applications of higher quality in less time.

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  • New features in Oracle8.0.4

    Oracle8 Release Oracle8.0.4 provides the following key enhancements compared to Oracle8.0.3:

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  • What is new in Oracle8.0?

    Oracle8 will still support the standard relational stuff as in Oracle7, but some new features and object extensions (cost option!) were added. To list a few: More info is available in the Oracle8 DBA FAQ.

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  • What is new in Oracle Developer/2000 Release 2.0?

    Some of the key product's features:
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  • What is new in Oracle Mobile Agents V2.0?

    Oracle released Oracle Mobile Agents V2.0 and an accompanying Software Development Kit. This is some of the product's features:
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  • Oracle Power Objects V2.0

    Oracle Power Objects (OPO) V2.0 BETA has been released. Some of the new features includes:
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  • What is Oracle WebForms?

    Oracle's WebForms is a product that will help you Web-enable existing Developer/2000 (Forms 4.5) applications. This provides the ability to run a Developer/2000 form on any modern Web browser.

    WebForms will consist of a Forms client (downloadable Java applet) and FormsServer (Java NCA Cartridge). Rumour has it that the FormsClient will run in about 500K of memory.

    WebForms can be centrally deployed and managed and will provide a nice thin client implementation.

    This capability will also be expanded to enable Web Reports.

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  • What is new in WebServer 3.0?

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  • Is Oracle's NCA an ActiveX buster?

    Oracle announced their Network Computer Architecture (NCA) to position themselves as THE internet solutions company (and possibly a Microsoft ActiveX buster). Oracle's NCA focus around the Application/WebServer middleware components, and will integrate CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) components into Oracle's core Application, Database and WebServers.

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  • Oracle Enterprise Manager for Windows95

    Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) V1.2 has been released with support for Windows95!!! OEM is free of charge with Oracle7.3 and can be used to manage all your Oracle 7.1 to 7.3 databases. Apparently the OEM Performance Pack, which is a cost option, won't run against the IBM MVS platform.

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  • August 1996: Oracle8 entered beta testing

    Information Week (Aug. 19, p14) has a great cover story on objects. They positions Oracle as a company to watch. The article notes that Oracle has "a revolutionary approach for managing data that combines the world's best-selling relational database with object-oriented extensions," in Oracle8, which entered beta this month. Oracle's Ken Jacobs explains that, "There's another story about Oracle8, and it's all about high-end functionality." Jacobs also notes that Oracle8 will support data volumes "hundreds or thousands" of times larger than have been demonstrated on Oracle 7.3, and up to 10 times as many users. That translates into a database capable of supporting more than 100 terabytes of data and more than 10,000 users. Oracle8 is expected to reach production status middle 1997.

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  • Will Oracle be JAVA enabled?

    Apparently Oracle Corporation and other high-tech industry leaders invested $100 000 000 in a JAVA Fund. Oracle 8.1 will be able to store JAVA code in the database very much like Oracle7 can store PL/SQL in the database today.

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  • What's new in Oracle7.3?

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