Developer/2000 for the Web augments existing development software by giving developers the ability to run applications on Oracle's recently announced Network Computing Architecture.

Developer/2000 2.0, which Oracle shipped in September, lets developers create three-tier client/server and Internet applications. The 2.0 release includes Web publishing capabilities and support for ActiveX.

The new Web release, due in the first quarter of 1997, will let developers redeploy existing Developer/2000 applications on intranets and the Internet without manual code changes, sources close to the Redwood Shores, Calif., company said.

"Developer/2000 for Web applications would take the same form and same code as other Developer/2000 applications," said one source at Oracle.

At run-time, Developer/2000 for the Web executes on an application server, not on the client. The application, in turn, is not rendered as a Motif or Windows application, but as a Java applet, said the Oracle source.

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