Oracle Plans To Develop Corporate Portals
PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL - news), the world's second-largest independent software company, Wednesday said it will develop standards to help create corporate portals to allow workers to use various applications via a standard Web browser.
Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle said it will undertake the project due to what it claimed was the diminishing importance of Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Windows operating system software in the workplace.
Increasingly, Oracle said, people at work and home are using browsers to get news, stock quotes, weather and sports scores.
Oracle said it makes sense to develop software to let workers pull together elements of all the programs they need for their work, creating a Web desktop within a browser.
Oracle hopes that by providing services such as a single sign-ons, user-specific views, searching and other tools, corporations will make ''libraries'' that can then be woven together using Oracle products into personalized portal sites |
