The South African market is enthusiastically adopting a combination of Oracle Lite and 3Com`s Palm III, finding it a perfect fit for the enterprise market, particularly insurance broking and data capturing.
This technology allows users to synchronise data on their Palm products with corporate Oracle databases.
James Trinder, NT product manager at Oracle SA, says that as soon as Oracle Lite on Palm III was announced, Oracle SA entered into discussions with 3Com`s local branch.
"Existing 3Com partner Zaptronix builds enterprise-class applications and complementary devices for the 3Com Palm III. Recently listed on the JSE, Zaptronix is far down the line in signing up as an Oracle partner," explains Trinder.
Oracle Lite is a small-footprint, single-user, object-relational database specifically designed for mobile computing applications requiring seamless synchronisation with central database servers.
It provides a robust set of database features with a memory requirement of only 250-750KB. It also supports a range of development languages and tools, such as Java, C/C++, Oracle Tools, VisualBasic, PowerBuilder and Delphi.
Data access is supported through both relational interfaces (SQL89, SQL92, ODBC, Oracle Call Interface, JDBC), and object-oriented interfaces (Java classes, ODMG).
"Zaptronix spends much time and effort moving data between the mobile Palm III and a central data store. Oracle Lite`s built-in data replication capabilities frees its developers up, enabling them to focus on the application itself rather than data management issues," says Trinder.
Oracle Lite for the Palm Pilot was recently awarded the Canadian Computer Wholesaler Magazine`s Innovation `98 Technical Excellence award. The publication presented
Oracle with the award for excellence for Oracle Lite on the 3Com Palm computing platform at the annual Comdex Canada `98 show.
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