NOVEMBER 4, 1996
VOLUME 10 NUMBER 42
Oracle Power Objects 2.0 goes native
By Clifford Colby
Oracle Corp. said it shipped at the end of last week Version 2.0 of its Power Objects client-server development tool.
With the upgrade, the tool runs native on Power Macs, Oracle said (see 09.23.96, Page 4). The initial Power Objects was available only in a 680x0 version.
"They had a rough first year, but the whole project has been ramped up," said Richard Jowsey, director of development for SFC Desktop Business Systems, a client-server consulting firm in San Francisco.
"Going native has been a huge jump; it crawled along in emulation," Jowsey said. "I'm talking about a difference of five seconds to a minute."
The update features a redesigned user interface and comes with an object browser that displays object hierarchies, Oracle said. Version 2.0 includes Open Database Connectivity drivers for Microsoft Corp.'s Visual FoxPro and Excel applications as well as Sybase Inc.'s SQL Server 10 and Microsoft's SQL Server 6 databases. Power Objects has a native driver for Oracle7 databases, the company said.
Also included is a new local database, Oracle Lite. With the native version, Mac users get Crystal Reports, a report writer from Crystal, a subsidiary of Seagate Software Co. of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Oracle said Power Objects 2.0 comes with a plug-in for Netscape Navigator that lets users run Power Objects-built applications from within the Web browser.
Oracle Corp. of Redwood Shores, Calif., can be reached at (415) 506-7000 or (800) 672-2531; fax (415) 506-7200; http://www.oracle.com.
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