Following the recent release of Oracle9i, the next-generation Internet computing software, Oracle has announced a series of complementary technologies and products.
The software giant has also announced that its global partners have widely endorsed Oracle9i.
Oracle9i consists of the Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Application Server, which feature new technology for developing fast, highly scalable and reliable e-business applications and web sites.
"All the critical software infrastructure that e-businesses need are now included in these two Oracle9i software products," says Marc Gower, marketing director of Oracle SA. "Oracle`s vision for the future of software is one in which software online services become available to anyone in the world with an Internet-ready device, and ASPs and ISVs will be key to realising that vision.
"Over the last six years, major software engineering projects at Oracle have resulted in breakthrough patented technologies becoming available in Oracle9i to address these quality-of- service attributes."
Gower explains that these advances include three new major types of caching technology: dynamic and static caching for web pages, and a radically new shared-cache database architecture. "With these technologies e-business applications and web sites will be able to perform faster with superior scalability and availability.
"Computing is moving onto the Internet. The era of costly, maintenance-intensive, enterprise-centric computing is coming to an end, to be replaced by cost-effective, Internet-resident computing that companies subscribe to using a Web browser.
"Companies which opt for the software subscription model will gain competitive edge by being able to access the latest technology without the pain of having to custom-build their own IT infrastructure. This will free up precious internal resources and companies can then concentrate on developing new ways of leveraging technology to their competitive advantage," Gower maintains.
The Oracle9Application Server (Oracle9i AS) features new Web caching and server load balancing to improve the performance of Web sites. "Oracle`s Web caching can service up to 7,500 HTTP requests per second on a single 2-CPU machine, whereas most dynamic Web sites require hundreds of Web servers to sustain this level of throughput," Gower continues. "The Oracle Store, an early adopter of Oracle9i AS, has seen a 150 fold improvement in throughput since installing the Oracle`s Web caching."
Oracle has also unveiled Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, a database with technology that provides virtually limitless scalability and reliability for any real world application or web site. "Using Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, IT departments can simply add computers to a cluster improving application scalability and reliability as they go.
"No changes are required to either the application or the data.
"Prior to this, on older database architectures, IT departments were required to trade off scalability and reliability even after spending days reconfiguring data for the applications to even run," Gower says.
In addition, Oracle has announced Oracle Personalisation, which provides real time personalisation for e-business, and an integrated real time recommendation engine completely imbedded in the Oracle9I database.
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