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To: ACEINVESTOR who wrote (6589)	3/26/1998 7:27:00 PM
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Oracle details Java plans for next version of database By Mark Hammond March 26, 1998 PC Week Online SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle Corp.'s upgrade to its enterprise database later this year will add support for Enterprise JavaBeans and incorporate a Java virtual machine, with the goal of providing users with performance and scalability equal to that in Oracle8. Oracle officials said today at the JavaOne conference here that Oracle8.1 will centralize Java functions directly in the database to provide flexibility in application development and deployment and to maximize performance and scalability. Oracle previewed for developers the Java features in the forthcoming 8.1, now in limited beta and scheduled to ship by the end of the year. A formal announcement is expected on April 15. Oracle is writing its Java virtual machine and compiler from scratch, hoping to provide more scalability than is found in an off-the-shelf JVM, the officials said. "Our goal is to have equal performance" between Java and conventional Oracle databases, said Andrew Mendelsohn, vice president of languages and relational technology. "We think it's achievable.'' Incorporating Embedded JavaBeans and the JVM directly into the database, rather than on a middle-tier server, has been shown in recent tests to boost transaction-processing performance by a factor of about eight, officials said. Oracle's competitors, including Informix Software Inc., Sybase Inc. and IBM, are also working on Java-enabled database software. "Demand for Java among our customers is huge,'' said Mark Jarvis, Oracle's vice president of system products marketing. "The demand for something based on standards is out there, and Java is the only thing our customers see.'' Ace