Oracle plans to add interactive video to database software in slowing market

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Oracle Corp has announced plans to add an interactive video component to its Oracle 7 database software, but investors continue to debate whether the database market's remarkable growth may be slowing. Oracle will implement a video-storage technology similar to one developed for delivering movies on demand. This interactive video project represents a new way to recycle technology that was initially geared towards cable TV and telephone companies. Some companies already use computerized video to convey product information or to train workers, but these videos are usually stored on CD-ROM disks. Integrating a video component directly into the database software will provide users with more ways to combine and present information. Oracle has yet to decide how much to charge for this video add-on feature of Oracle 7. Oracle executives downplayed any concerns about a database market slowdown.

Radio & TV communications equipment, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Digital Video Processors, Planning, Product development, Product information, Product enhancement, Broadcasting equipment, Digital television equipment, Digital video, Company product planning, Interactive media, Interactive technology, Company Business And Marketing, Oracle7 (DBMS)

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Oracle set to offer new database software

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Oracle is set to introduce its new database software, Oracle8, a product that will compete against IBM for the management of large repositories of information. Oracle8 is approximately 30% faster than IBM's current database management product and should be the fastest DBMS product on the market. It can manage several trillion bytes of data and support as many as 10 times more desktop-computer users than the company's previous DBMS product. Oracle controlled an estimated 29.8% of the DBMS market in 1996 while IBM controlled 25.6%. Microsoft is threatening Oracle's share of the low end market with its SQL Server database, which it claims in less expensive to operate than Oracle8. Oracle disagrees, claiming the Oracle8, which has not yet been priced, is the least expensive of the two.

Product introduction, Product Announcement, Database management systems, DBMS software, Software product introduction, DBMS, Oracle8 (DBMS)

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Oracle to buy a Netscape spinoff in race to build home applications

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Oracle is purchasing a Netscape spinoff company, Navio Communications from Netscape, which owns approximately 50% and other investors for stock in a Network Computer, a Oracle subsidiary. The deal is another step by Oracle to move toward Web access, echoing a move by its arch rival, Microsoft, which purchased WebTV Networks in April 1997 for $25 million. Analysts believe Netscape wanted to avoid pouring more money into the company and wanted instead to use the money to battle Microsoft. Netscape spun Navio off in July of 1996, in order to focus more on the corporate market. Navio has been customizing a version of Netscape Navigator to work on devices other than computers, such as TVs and special phones that come with small screens.

Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Company acquisition/merger, Internet access software, World Wide Web, Web browser, Web browsers, Navio Communications Inc.

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