Extending its lead as the largest provider of software for e-business, Oracle Corp has announced its next-generation of Internet computing software, Oracle9i.
Oracle9i consists of the Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Application Server - featuring 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, Oracle SA marketing director.
"New development tools delivered through the Oracle9i Developer Suite ensure that leveraging the features of Oracle9i has never been easier," he says. "As software increasingly becomes hosted and deployed as service available to anyone in the world with a browser, real-world performance, scalability and availability become key.
"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.
"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 both e-business applications and web sites will be able to perform dramatically faster with superior scalability and availability."
Gower says several recent studies point to growing demand for software services, the most prominent of which was conducted by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, a leading financial services firm.
"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," continues Gower.
"The companies who 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 key internal resources so that they can then concentrate on developing new ways of leveraging technology to their competitive advantage."
The Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Application Server are designed to work together, with simplified administration. Because all critical functionality is included in Oracle9i costly software integration and maintenance costs are removed.
Oracle9i`s breakthrough technologies are designed specifically for the developing and deploying hosted applications and online exchanges on a global scale. Key aspects of Oracle9i include:
Oracle9i Database:
With the next version of Oracle`s industry-leading database, DBAs will be able to configure the database to help ensure its data is always available regardless of maintenance work, disasters, and human errors. New self-tuning and configuration management software will help dramatically lower costs. These availability and management features are essential to application hosting.
Oracle9i Real Application Clusters are based on a radical new database architecture called Oracle Cache Fusion. Oracle9i Real Application Clusters deliver virtually infinite, linear scalability for all real world applications and web sites. Customers using Oracle9i Real Application Clusters will be able to support virtually unlimited numbers users and an unlimited amount data, only constrained by hardware. Oracle Cache Fusion is patented technology; no other database is expected to have this capability for years to come.
Oracle9i Application Server:
Sophisticated cache technologies throughout the Oracle9i platform will help make Oracle-based Web sites the fastest in the world. These include the patent-pending Web cache technology in Oracle9i Application Server. E-businesses can expect impressive capacity improvements, starting with a single instance of Oracle9i Application Server on inexpensive hardware.
Oracle9i Developer Suite:
The new edition of Oracle`s flagship tools suite will take full advantage of the Oracle9i deployment platform and is being enhanced with new features for developing software services in hosted environments and wireless Internet applications. Based on Java, SQL, and XML, the Oracle9i Developer Suite will provide a complete family of programming and business intelligence tools for building tomorrow`s sophisticated transactional software services.
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