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(COMTEX) B: ORACLE: Oracle outlines roadmap for Oracle8i Lite
B: ORACLE: Oracle outlines roadmap for Oracle8i Lite
MAY 19, 1999, M2 Communications - Continuing to gain momentum in the
market for mobile databases and information systems, Oracle today
outlined an aggressive roadmap for Oracle8i Lite, the Internet platform for mobile computing. The roadmap details product plans in three key emerging database markets - mobile, embedded and information appliance applications. Unlike other vendors who only provide partial mobile solutions, Oracle is the only vendor to offer technology across each of these key markets. Oracle8i Lite will ship next month.
The roadmap for Oracle8i Lite includes:
* Extending Mobile Support to Linux - Oracle plans to extend the
Oracle Internet platform for mobile computing to the Linux operating
system by delivering Oracle8i Lite for Linux, the first mobile
computing platform for the open source community
* Scaling Up Embedded Computing Applications to Support Multiple
Users - Currently, embedded applications are limited to single users.
Oracle plans to deliver a 2-10 user, 'mini-server' version of Oracle8i
Lite in the second half of 1999, making Oracle the first vendor to
deliver a small footprint, no administration, multi-user database for
embedded computing
* Information Appliance Applications Take Web Applications on the Go
- Oracle's Project Panama, announced earlier this year, is the only
product to provide a wireless portal service that accesses Web content
from any information appliance. Later this year, Oracle will extend the
Oracle Internet platform to wireless devices by combining Project
Panama with Oracle8i Lite. This combination will provide direct offline
access to Internet applications from any information appliance.
"Enterprise application systems are no longer confined to the office.
Advances in wireless communications and microelectronics now allow us
to extend the corporate systems to remote and mobile devices such as
mobile phones, PDAs, vending machines, field test equipment and utility
meters," said Anne Thomas of the Patricia Seybold Group. "I envisage
Oracle8i Lite powering a number of mobile application systems that
could significantly improve efficiency and reduce operational costs.
Oracle has hit all the bases with an extremely small footprint,
optimised replication capabilities and turnkey synchronisation
services."
"Oracle has gained market share rapidly because we are the only
vendor to offer a solution that goes seamlessly from handheld to
enterprise," said Nick Gregory, product marketing manager, Oracle UK.
"We are very focused on extending Oralce8i Lite's scalability,
flexibility and functionality to the emerging mobile, embedded and
information appliance markets."
Oracle8i Lite is the only small-footprint database built from the
ground up specifically for mobile computing. Oracle8i Lite seamlessly
extends the Internet to both mobile disconnected users and wireless
connected users. The most complete and comprehensive platform for
building, deploying and managing mobile Web applications, Oracle8i Lite
will include three major new components which can be used individually
or in combination, depending on the application.
* Oracle Lite - a small footprint Java-enabled database built for
laptops, handheld computers, PDAs, cell phones and information
appliances
* Web-to-Go - extends the Oracle Internet platform to mobile
computing by allowing Web applications to be centrally developed,
remotely deployed and professionally managed
* IConnect - a flexible architecture that enables reliable and
scalable bi-directional synchronisation of data and applications
between mobile devices, Oracle Lite and central database servers.
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for
information management, and the world's second largest independent
software company. With annual revenues of more than $8.3 billion, the
company offers its database, tools and application products, along with
related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 145
countries around the world.
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