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ORACLE8I(TM) LITE SHIPS, ENABLES A NEW CLASS OF MOBILE E-BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
MORE THAN FIFTY LEADING ISVS SET TO BUILD MOBILE Applications for The Oracle(R) Internet
Platform
ORACLE8I(TM) LITE SHIPS, ENABLES A NEW CLASS OF MOBILE E-BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS MORE THAN FIFTY LEADING ISVS SET TO BUILD MOBILE
Applications for The Oracle(R) Internet Platform
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jun 30, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the number one choice for e-business,
today announced the immediate availability of Oracle8i(TM) Lite, the
fourth generation of Oracle's Internet platform for mobile computing.
With this new e-business ready version, Oracle becomes the first vendor
to provide continuous access to enterprise information from any
browser, on any device, from any location. More than 50 Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs) plan to develop mobile e-business applications
for Oracle8i Lite. Oracle8i Lite will be downloadable at no cost to
Internet developers via the Oracle(R) Technology Network (OTN) at
technet.com at the end of next week.
The newest generation of Oracle8i Lite is specifically designed for
mobile e-business applications requiring seamless synchronization with
central databases, and is a key component in the delivery of Oracle's
recently-announced roadmap for Oracle8i Lite. The roadmap for 1999
encompasses three key market segments -- mobile computing applications,
embedded computing applications and information appliance applications.
"Oracle8i Lite's Web-to-Go feature will revolutionize our approach to
portable applications. Whereas we once dealt with complex and disparate
systems from third party vendors, we now have only one code base to
maintain," said Ray Demich, vice president at Bank One. "We can now
deploy mobile Web applications to our sales force at a fraction of the
cost and time of our traditional solutions. We are very excited about
the potential of this powerful technology and have had great success
thus far in using the product."
Oracle8i Lite is optimized for use on small mobile application devices,
such as laptops, handheld computers and personal digital assistants
(PDAs), including Palm and WindowsCE devices. Oracle will offer two
ways to access business-critical information quickly: offline, with
Oracle8i Lite, or online, with Project Panama's wireless portal
service. Oracle8i Lite is comprised of three components:
* Oracle Lite -- a single-user, 50KB-750KB footprint,
java-enabled, object
relational database;
* Web-to-Go -- a component which allows users to access the same
data and
Web applications both offline and online;
* iConnect -- a flexible architecture that enables reliable and
scalable
bi-directional synchronization of data and applications.
"Oracle8i Lite is the leading choice for taking e-business applications
mobile," said Denise Lahey, vice president, mobile and embedded
products division at Oracle. "Users need immediate, continuous access
to business-critical information, and Oracle is the only vendor who can
offer seamless synchronization with a central database and access to
enterprise data whether they are running connected or disconnected."
Leading ISVs Choose Oracle8i Lite The following Independent Software
Vendors and partners intend to provide their customers with low-cost
and reliable e-business solutions with Oracle8i Lite: 1783 Productions,
L.L.C., Aether Technologies, L.L.C., AvantGo, Inc., BPA Systems,
Datastructures, Inc., Datria Systems, Inc., Dauphin Technology, Inc.,
Digital Inspections, Fieldworker Products, Future Horizons, Inc.,
Intermec Technologies Corporation, LGS Group Inc., MapFrame, MICROS
Systems Inc., ObjectShare Inc., Palm Computing, Inc., Partnerware
Technologies, Inc., Pen Computer Solutions Inc., Puma Technology,
Severn Trent Systems Groupof Stoner Associates, Inc., Symbian Inc.,
Symbol Technologies, Inc., Syscon Justice Systems Ltd., Tidestone
Technologies, Inc.
"Oracle8i Lite has opened a door for a whole new area of computer users,
" said Tom DeBacco, CEO of Tidestone Technologies, Inc. "Now it is
possible for mobile sales reps and disconnected users to truly leverage
the samecomputing infrastructure that on-site employees have. Formula
One, our flagship product, and Oracle8i Lite are the perfect compliment
to these users whoneed a powerful database and a robust front end for
manipulating data."
Supported platforms: Windows95/98/NT, Windows CE, Palm OS, EPOC 32 and
Chorus
More information about Oracle8i Lite is available at (URL)
oracle.com.
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 $8.8 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.
For more information about Oracle, please call 650-506-7000. Oracle's
Worldwide Web address is (URL) oracle.com.
Trademarks Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle8i is a trademark
or registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Other names may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
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