 Customers
Leverage Client/Server Development Investment to Easily
Deploy Applications in Corporate Intranet and Public
Internet Environments
AMSTERDAM/SAN FRANCISCO, April
15, 1996-Oracle Corp. today outlined its strategy for
extending the advanced functionality of its leading
application development tools to corporate Intranet and
public Internet developers. Oracle's development tools
product line consists of Oracle Power Objects,
Developer/2000, Designer/2000, and the new Oracle
PowerBrowser. Together these products address the
complete life cycle of corporate Intranet development.
This announcement was made internationally today at the
European Oracle User Group in Amsterdam and DB EXPO in
San Francisco.
Oracle's complete line of
development tools span the needs of developers building
systems for deployment to small workgroups through the
enterprise. In addition, Oracle's tools offer end-to-end
integration and the ability to leverage the functionality
of Oracle Universal Server, the most scalable, widely
used database among Fortune 1000 companies. From a
development side, Oracle's tools offer second generation
features including an object-oriented development
environment, drag-and-drop application partitioning,
automatic code generation and the ability to easily
publish dynamic database information.
"Only Oracle has
demonstrated leadership in delivering Intranet and
Internet developers the tools they need to deliver
database-smart applications," said Sohaib Abbasi,
Oracle's senior vice president of development tools.
"These new tools combined with Oracle's new
WebServer 2.0 and Oracle Universal Server make Oracle the
right choice for serious application development for any
deployment environment."
Oracle's PowerBrowser has all
of the features of Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's
Explorer, including Java, Javascript, and Basic, plus
advanced tools for database developers to tightly link
their Intranet and Internet applications with relational
databases. Oracle Power Browser is the first browser to
feature a personal HTTP server, ODBC access, and Personal
Oracle Lite--a personal database for storing information
locally on a personal computer. Leveraging the
easy-to-use development environment in PowerBrowser, an
individual can retrieve dynamic, real-time information
from anywhere within the enterprise, analyze and
customize the data and then publish it from the personal
HTTP server inside Power Browser. This data can then be
accessed by anyone throughout the organization by simply
entering the URL from within the browser. Because
PowerBrowser comes with a personal desktop database, the
creator of the web page can build and deploy a complete
application right from the desktop.
"Our new family of
Internet and Intranet tools offer developers the
productivity, scalability, and integration they need to
build the next generation of applications," said
Marc Benioff, senior vice president of Oracle's
Web/Workgroup Division. "Only Oracle can deliver
easy to use tools from the workgroup to the enterprise,
from the Internet to the Intranet, all integrated with
our leading database systems. No other vendor has
demonstrated the completeness of Oracle's approach to
database-smart Internet and Intranet application
development."
In a related announcement
Oracle today introduced the Designer/2000 WebServer
Generator allowing developers to automatically generate
HTML Web pages for the modeling and generation of Web
applications. With the new WebServer Generator in
Designer/2000, customers can easily deploy applications
to either a client/server or Intranet environment thereby
fully leveraging the power of the web and reducing
deployment costs. This provides an easy migration and
coexistence path for client/server systems and corporate
Intranet environments.
Designer/2000 tightly
integrates with Developer/2000, Oracle's tool for
departmental and enterprise scale applications. By
leveraging its tight integration with Oracle Universal
Server, Developer/2000 will support the creation of
dynamic, highly graphical Web-based reports, charts and
diagrams. For the first time, end users can call data
stored in a database and receive the most current,
accurate information and reports in real time, without
leaving the browser environment. Users can then drill
down into the report to view supporting charts and
diagrams that analyze the data in greater detail, still
without ever leaving the browser window.
Oracle Power Objects, Oracle's
workgroup application development tool, will extend its
capabilities to embrace the new generation of workgroups
who want their client/server applications to be accessed
via a corporate Intranet. Existing Power Objects
applications will be able to be stored on a Web server
and run through any Web browser which supports the
Netscape Inline Plug-In architecture. Customers who have
invested in developing client/server solutions using
Power Objects will now be able to leverage their
investment and use one tool to develop client/server or
Web-based solutions.
For more information about
Oracle, please call (415) 506-7000. Oracle's World Wide
Web address is (URL) http://www.oracle.com/.
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Developer/2000, Oracle PowerBrowser and Oracle Power
Objects are trademarks of Oracle Corporation. All other
products or company names mentioned are for
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