REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Aug. 13, 1996-Oracle Corp. today announced enterprise development tools, Developer/2000 and Designer/2000, recently received top honors from key industry media.
In a June 17 InfoWorld review of enterprise-level rapid application development (RAD) tools, Developer/2000 outshone the competition. The review found that Developer/2000 delivered the most robust performance and features necessary for building, deploying and maintaining enterprise-level, mission-critical applications. Oracle Developer/2000 Release 1.3's performance in our tests convinced us that it was prepared to scale tall buildings, or at least large networks, InfoWorld wrote.
Designer/2000, Oracle?s generation and modeling tool closely integrated with Developer/2000, swept all seven CASE categories in Computerworld's 1996 Application Development Tool Brand Preference Survey among information systems managers. Developer/2000 won four out of seven 4GL categories. Respondents found Oracle tools superior to the competition in a number of criteria, in many cases by a margin of greater than two to one.
Recognition such as this from reviewers and users alike underlines the quality behind the soaring sales of Developer/2000 and Designer/2000, said Sohaib Abbasi, senior vice president, Oracle Tools Product Division. The industry understands that Oracle tools are much more than a toolset supporting the Oracle database. They are making a mark and are now leading the industry in technology, support and sales.
"Oracle's scalable tools maximize user productivity and enable hundreds of our members to build state-of-the-art systems," said Jeffrey Jacobs, president of the Oracle Development Tools User Group. "At the same time, we're excited about the long-term direction Oracle's tools are taking and about the company's flexibility to efficiently accommodate changing user requirements."
A RADical Review Rapid application development for enterprise-level, mission critical applications requires tools that deliver strong productivity, high scalability and manageability and cross-platform development and deployment. InfoWorld's review pointed to several features in Developer/2000 that boost developer productivity. They include strong code reusability and generation capabilities, a robust data dictionary and drag-and-drop application partitioning. A unique feature in the industry, Developer/2000's drag-and-drop application partitioning capability allows developers to efficiently place business logic across servers, making multi-tier, highly scalable applications easy to build and maintain.
Using these features in Developer/2000's robust transaction builder, InfoWorld reviewers built a fully functional, multi-tier application within minutes. High scalability also made Developer/2000's reporting capabilities the strongest for end-user support for the enterprise. InfoWorld also found Oracle's support policies for Developer/2000 to be the best of the bunch. InfoWorld pointed to Developer/2000's new Web-enabled features in report publishing and, with its next release, Web forms that continue to evolve toward scalable transaction processing on the Web.
I/S Managers' Choice Based on the response of 650 to 750 I/S executives from Computerworld's business and end-user categories, Developer/2000 and Designer/2000 beat the competition in their respective product segments. In the 4GL segment, respondents selected Oracle and Developer/2000 as the best technology, best service and support, best documentation? and the preferred company to do business with.
In the CASE tools segment, Designer/2000 swept all seven categories by at least a two-to-one margin in each. From best technology, price/performance, documentation and service and support to most installed product, most likely to purchase and preferred company to do business with, Oracle and Designer/2000 demonstrated an unrivaled market leadership among CASE/modeling tools vendors.
Oracle Tools With annual license revenues of more than $361 million, Oracle's application development tools are used by over half a million developers worldwide. Developer/2000 is the first client/server development tool to deliver workgroup-through-enterprise scalability and the only tool on the market that uses the same programming language on both the client and the server. Core strengths, including drag-and-drop application partitioning, support the development of highly scalable applications. Designer/2000 is Oracle's modeling tool for client/server development, incorporating support for system analysis, software design, automatic code generation and business process re-engineering.
Oracle Corp. is the world's second largest software company, and the largest supplier of software for information management. With annual revenues of more than $4.2 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 90 countries around the world.
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