Oracle to unveil new products for server units
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Oracle is developing new client/server products that experts say may give it a competitive advantage in the burgeoning market. Large companies are moving toward client/server, networks of PCs connected together by powerful server computers, from more costly mainframe computer systems. However, client/server growth has been hindered by software scalability restrictions, which enable a company to customize client/server systems. The main problem is a client/server systems' inability to easily handle the thousands of disparate computer users the corporations want to have on their networks. Oracle claims to have a solution to scalability problems. It is scheduled to introduce new products that will allow software programmers to use sophisticated programming tools to create customized client/server programs based on Microsoft's popular Windows operating system. The programing tools will bring functions such as drag-and-drop and automatic code generation to client/server.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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Microsoft's rivals to cooperate to slow its momentum in corporate networks
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IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and Netscape are joining forces to make their product more interoperable, adopting common object-oriented technical standards. The coalition hopes to stop Microsoft, which already has a near monopoly on the desktop operating system market, from dominating the network operating system and applications markets. Microsoft is expected to keep its own competing standards, including its ActiveX technologies. Object-oriented programming allows application developers to reuse chunks of code, thus drastically reducing production time. The growth of the Internet and its cross-platform standards has given the companies in the coalition a good basis for cooperation, but the four industry leaders face the challenge of working together despite their competing products. Interoperability also makes it easier for customers to switch to rival products.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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Apple, IBM kill Kaleida Labs venture: analysts say axe may also fall on struggling Taligent
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Apple and IBM announced plans to abandon their Kaleida Labs joint venture originally meant to shift the balance of power within the computer industry. The companies created Kaleida Labs to develop software for playing multimedia applications on PCs, game players and TV set-top boxes. Although the announcement has generated rampant speculation about the future of Taligent, another IBM and Apple joint venture, the companies claim they will continue to support the endeavor. The ill-fated Kaleida has been plagued by conflict and delays. IBM and Apple created Kaleida to develop a software language calls ScriptX which was introduced recently after extended delays. Consequently, Macromedia has gained a significant lead in the very market ScriptX entered.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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