To all,
Just saw this at techweb. Looks encouraging!
Oracle To Embrace Java At InternetWorld
(12/02/97; 7:00 p.m. EST)
By Andy Patrizio, TechWeb
Oracle will make a series of Java-related
announcements at the Internet World conference in
New York next week that shows the Redwood
Shores, Calif., company is not just paying lip service
to the Java language but embracing it along its product
lines.
The biggest sign of commitment is that the Oracle
Applications suite of Enterprise Resource Planning
applications, such as human resources and finance
software, have been rewritten entirely in Java, allowing
them to be run from a Web server and accessed by
any Java-enabled browser. Oracle says this eliminates
the need for proprietary client-side applications in a
client/server environment.
"We're putting our money where our mouth is," said a
source in Oracle who asked not to be identified.
"We're putting a multimillion dollar business [in Oracle
Applications] on the Web, which puts us miles ahead
of SAP, Baan, and PeopleSoft." Both Oracle
Applications 10.7, the current release, and version 11,
due in the spring of 1998, will be available in Java.
The Oracle source said the company used
Developer/2000, its client/server application
development tool, for all internal development.
Developer/2000 is able to create both client/server
binaries and Java applications from one code base, the
source said.
Along with the Java-based Oracle Applications,
Oracle will introduce a server-side runtime that will
allow Java applications written in Developer/2000 to
run on any application server running Windows NT or
one of many flavors of Unix. It will come with a limited
user license of Oracle Application Server, formerly the
Web Application Server.
Oracle will also issue a minor patch to its Oracle 8
database. Oracle 8.04 adds several Java technologies,
including JSQL tools and JDBC for native
Oracle access through Java applications.
Oracle will also introduce its Java development tool,
based on the JBuilder technology it licensed from
Borland International earlier this year. The product,
code-named Valhalla, will be available as a public
beta next week. Pricing and the name will be given
when it ships in the first quarter of 1998. |
