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Oracle Corporation, the world's leading supplier of software for information management, has announced that it will be offering a free early access CD to the first 50,000 registrants of Oracle8i, the world's first Internet database. This special offer is made possible through Oracle Technology Network
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Oracle Corporation has reinforced its position as a leader in support services, as ranked by Dataquest, a unit of Gartner Group, Inc. The company has continuously expanded its support offerings to differentiate itself from competitors, and its cost-effective and broad-scope support services have been recognized as superior to those of
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Oracle Corporation's Larry Ellison expressed concerns about unsustainable IT spending in Australia, stating that business is allocating excessive funds for IT resources. According to Ellison, 50 cents of every US corporate dollar is spent on purchasing, maintaining, and training personnel for IT purposes. He attributed this issue to
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Oracle Corp. is seeking partnerships with top tech firms, including Dell Computer Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., and Hewlett-Packard Co., in its bid to challenge Microsoft Corp. for dominance in the computer market. CEO Larry Ellison emphasized the importance of alliances in the face of growing competition, as Oracle promotes its
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Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are planning to announce a pact to sell new business computers that aim to blunt Microsoft's operating software dominance. The partnership, set to be unveiled today, will integrate Oracle's database software with Sun's computers to enable employees to
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Oracle Corporation has announced that Intelligent Enterprise magazine has awarded Oracle Applications and the Oracle database the 1998 Readers' Choice Awards in the packaged application and database server categories. The awards were based on a web-based voting process among 100,000 IT and business leaders who create and manage
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Sun Microsystems, a leading provider of open network computing solutions, has established itself as a preferred choice for institutions worldwide to power their campus administration systems. The company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, running on the Sun platform, have been instrumental in streamlining administration processes, increasing productivity, and
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NETg, a global leader in technology-based training, and Oracle Corporation have partnered to make available 282 new IT courses supporting Oracle's industry standards-based Reusable Content Objects (RCO) format. These courses, which will be deployed via the Oracle Online Learning Application (OLA), are designed to provide professionals worldwide with
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Major software vendors, including IBM, Unisys, and Oracle, have submitted a proposal to establish an industry standard for storing and sharing object programming and design information, called the XML Metadata Interchange Format (XMI) standard. This standard aims to enable development teams using various tools from multiple vendors to collaborate on
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Oracle Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lawrence J. Ellison demonstrated the use of remote disk mirroring to create a highly available enterprise Internet application at Oracle's OpenWorld conference. The demonstration showcased EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) generating an instantly available copy of information at a
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Business Objects, the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, has announced the immediate availability of BusinessObjects(tm) Rapid Deployment Templates (RDTs) for Oracle Applications Release 11. This move aims to provide customers with a preconfigured decision support system (DSS) environment for quickly accessing data from
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Applied Materials, the world's largest producer of wafer fabrication systems and services for the global semiconductor industry, has successfully implemented Oracle Manufacturing software applications for its chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) division. The five-month implementation within the division was completed within budget and five weeks ahead of schedule. This
