ORACLE CORPORATION NE\rS AND FEATURES VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1

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CUSIODIDR SI]PPORT
Backing its commitment to pro-
vide the most comprehensive
support program in the soffware
industry, Oracle has announced
the expansion and realignment of
Oracle Support Services. Adding
to its customer support and educa-
tional services, Oracle has estab-
lished a centrahzed network of
suppolt teams dedicated to a
specific product or operating sys-
tem and introduced a new class
of optional support seryices.
Premium Support.
"At Oracle we know that
cllstomers measllre a company
not only by its products but by
how it stands behind them," said
Gary Kennedy, Vice President of
U.S. Sales and Service. "As oltr
cllstomer base expands and ottr
product grollps extencl across
numerous operating system plat-
forms, we decided the best way
to selve ollr cLlstomers was to
form a centralizecl sLlpport grotlp
with a high degree of special-
ization."
This centralization
ancl specializatron
is enhanced by a
compnterized
call tracking
network.
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suite of optional selices called
Premium Support, which pro-
vides Llsers with customized sr-rp-
pofi.tailored to their unique
neeos.
Every incoming support call is "At Oracle we recognize that
now immediately qualified and di- sLlpport isn't a'one-size-fits-al1'
rected to the appropriate sLlpport
proposition," said Ken Marshall,
team. In addition, each call is
Vice President of Professional
Services. "The level of support
cLlstomefs require depends on a
"Euery incoming call is number of factors: data needs,
budget, application backlog, and
directed to the staff exoerience. to name a few.
-
appropriate suppo?t our goll is to form a working
partnership with Premium
team. and
tracked Cr-rstomers to guarantee
through the new Call them selice that is
personal, direct,
Tracking IYetwork." and responsive."
tracked through the new Call
Tracking Network. Specialists can
then cuer the network's database
for similai problems and potential
solutions. "\7e also keep the
cllstomer profile and history of
system Llsage on-line," said MarY
Winslow, Director of Corporate
Support. "This allows ollr sllpport
tealrrs to more quickly and
effectiveiy diagnose the ploblem
ancl cletennine tl-re appropliate
solution."
Recognizing that nlJny crts-
tomers have neecls that
extencl beyoncl prob-
lem assistance,
Oracle l-ras intro-
cluced a new
 Each Premium Sr-rpport Cus-
tomer is assigned a local Client
Sen'ice Manager. These managers
are ftrlly accountable for both the
technical and business relation-
ships between Oracle and the
cLrstomer and are evaluated solely
on customer satisfaction.
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Premium Support Customers
will have 24-hour toll-free
to Central Support as well
hour access to a comorehensive
on-line support system to be
introduced June 1, 1987. This sys-
tem includes a problem reporting
and tracking system, mail
facility, user bulletin
board, online
help and
access to
new and
updated
prodLlcts on a
trial basis.
Oracle has also "Our corporate strategy is to con-
significantly broad-
ened its educational and logically advanced software with
consulting resources in the the most comprehensive sLlppofi
past year. New curricula
designed around Functional
Learning Paths are tailoled spe-
cifically to the Lrser's job respon-
sibilities and level of system use.
from the casual Llser to the sys-
access tems professional. Courses are
as 24- also being developed in the ateas
of system design, methodology,
SQL and application development.
"Premium Support
prouides users uith
customized
- support
tailored to their
unique needs.tl
Customers needing more ex-
tensive assistance, ranging from
consultative review to turnkey
system development, can call on
the resources of over 100 consul-
tants who make uo Oracle Con-
strlting Sen,ices. With expertise in
RDBMS design, development,
implementation and performance
tuning, these consultants offer
usefs a valuable resource in
maximizing their system's per-
Iormance.
The benefits of this extensive
new suppoft system are obvious:
tinue to provide the most techno-
selvices," says Kennedy. "The
result is a total solution to olrr
cllstomers' systern development
needs." r

Onncm
I/ERSION
RDTDASEI)
'.1
In July of 1986 Oracle made soft- formation managers have been
ware history with the introduction searching for," according to Mike
of Version 5 of its Relational
DBMS, the first product to allow
true distributed data processing.
Oracle has now released Version
5.1 and associated products, a sig- attainable. The resr-rlt will be the
nificant step toward providing
distributed solutions to database
problems.
Employing the important
features of these new releases.
usefs can now:
. build distributed ORACLE
applications on IBM PCs connec-
ted to minis and mainframes;
o run SQL*Calco and Easy*SQL"'
under VMS;
. create forms with a drama-
tically improved screen painter;
. benefit from increased perform-
ance in the RDBMS, communica-
tions, and forms prodr,rcts.
All new Oracle application
development and end user tools
utilize heterogeneous net-
working, the linking together
of dissimilar compllters via
SQL*Net'n'. Key features of the
resulting distributed processing
environment include:
. PCs and MicroVAX comDllters
provide cost-effective CPU cycles:
. large central computers act AS
database servers, storing data in-
expensively;
. operators back up critical data
centrally and clependably
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. centralized storage provides
data security.
DnnusER
"The Version 5.1 release of PRODUCT
the RDBMS and its associated
tools delivers a solution that in- SCHEDI]TE
The following end user products
will be available with Version 5.1
Thoma,Vice President of Product of ORACLE:
Marketing. "The benefits of true EasfSQL gives users the power
distributed processing for serious of SQL and the ORACLE RDBMS
production applications are now through simple cursor or mouse-
driven menus. It allows novice
first cost-effective use of PCs in a and casual users to build and use
distributed environment. I' r ORACLE databases without
learning SQL command syntax.
SQL*Calc combines the power
PC PRODUCT of the ORACLE RDBMS with an
SITTOR easy-to-learn spreadsheet user
SPRING REI,EASN interface.
Product Availability:
Springtime of '87 marks the
eagerly anticipated introduc- EasfSQL 2.L
.
tion and shipment of VMS
Oracle's new product for EaslSQL 2.2, with enhanced
PC users. graphics and editing capabilities:
Version 5.1 for the PC . VMS
brings with it the same en- . MS-DOS
hancements and improve- . DG AOS/VS
ments found in Version 5.1 . selected Unix machines
in other environments, in- SQL*Calc L.L
cluding PC participation in
. VMS
SQL*Star" distributed data- .
bases. In addition, the new
MS-DOS
ORACLE for the PC has been SQL*Calc 1.2, with ability to
specially tailored for today's read and write .\XrKS and .\WKl
demanding PC users, espe- files:
cially those with LANs. . VMS
For further information . MS-DOS
on Version 5.1 for the PC,
. DG AOS/VS
contact your Oracle sales rep . selected UNIX machines I
or call (800) 345-DBMS.
 The developer then uses menus to applications. And the develop-
SQIIFonms' further specifir data vahdation and ment time for such an application
REVOTT]TIONIN field attributes, and employs the is now a fractton of what it would
screen painterrs powerful drawing be with traditional programming.
APPTICAIION and text manioulation facilities to The result is that not only can de-
bring the screln to life. The result velopers significantly reduce their
DBIDLOHIENT is that developers have all the application backlog, but the appli-
In building applications, develo- power they need and the speed cations they build will be exactly
pers have always been faced by and ease that comes from "appli- what their users want."
the large gap between the power cations without programming". For more information about
of programming languages and the SQL*Forms utilizes an open SQL*Forms call Oracle Corpora-
simplicity of rypical development architecture to allow users to ex- tion, (800) 345-DBMS. r
"aids." But with Version 2.0 of tend SQL*Forms' built-in power
Oracle's SQL*Forms'", a 4th-gen- to build robust production appli-
eration application developrnent
tool, that gap has been closed.
cations and orocess information
any way they want. In addition
OnmIDRDBMS
SQL*Forms is a revolutionary to the menus and screen painter, NOWAVUIITBTE
approach to application devel-
opment. Forsaking the rigors ;::T ;iil ;::#fllTT.?51"'" oN WAI{G VS
and complications of program- SQL statements which access any Under terms of a recent agree-
ming languages and codes, database table, or even existing ment between Oracle Corporation
SQL*Forms employs a non-proce- programs written in most pro- and'Wang Laboratories, Version 5
dural structure to allow develooers gramming languages. of Oracle has been oorted to the
to create forms-based applications The result of this impressive Wang VS product line, giving
quickly and efficiently. A default combination of built-in func- Wang minicomputer users the
form, which the developer de- tionality and open architecture, benefits of SQL and relational
fines in less than a minute, han- according to Ron Vohl, Market- database management systems.
dles all transactions berween the ing Manager for Application This represents the first imple-
form and the database, all screen- Tools, is increased productivity. mentation of a SQl-based DBMS
editing functions, and all data "lJsers now have the power to on'Wang super-minis.
validation and error-checking. tackle even the most demanding

SQL * Forms
\Wang PC users can now use
Orderllo. D Date tr@ ORACLE to transport databases to
Client Code nif- t{amelllEIN[ \Wang VS machines for use in
0rderTotal Sales Code IL multi-user environments. Version
CheckTotal -fffiIf Commission El 5 of ORACLE is supported on the
-f{filil
Status Message shipdateElE complete VS product line.
ORDER LIIIE ITEMS This porting of ORACLE to
Item Product Product ST])
the VS line, according to'$fang
llo Code Description Price Qtv officials, allows Wang to offer its
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FIRST IIATF TORDCAST
\With record second cuarter fin:ln-
cial results. Oracle Corporation
continued a pattern of spectacr,rlar
qllarter-to-quarter gronth. This
growth reflects and supports the
soffware market's increasing
awareness and approval of Oracle
prodr.rcts and the positioning
goals the company has wolkecl
towards since its founding ten
yeafs ago.
positioned
"They'ue
their product line
pe(ectly.
- . .Euery piece
you askfor, they
seem to haue. "
Oracle's revenues for the
second qliarter of fiscal 1987 were
trp 1480/0, to S28.3 million, from
the same period last year. Net
income increased 1650/0, to over
$3.0 million, from the second
qtrafier of fiscal 1986.
Tl-rese forrnidable resnlts
exceeded the expectations of in-
dustry analysts and investors alike,
many of whom are now upu'ardly
revising their earnings forecasts
for the rest of Oracle's fiscal year.
The result has been a steady rise
in Oracle's stock price to all-time
I'righs.
These rnrlvsl s attribr-rtc
Oracle's unprecedented growth-ztt
least doubling its revenues in
eight of the last nine years-to
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sound and progressive product
strategies. "They've positioned
their product line perfectly," said
Paul Cr-rbbage, market analyst at
Dataquest.
The funclamental product
decisions the company made ten
years ago-to write a database
lnanagement system which was
relational and based on IBIVI's SQL
language-have given Oracle pro-
ducts a technological edge that
today's market is acknowledging.
Conceding the ttndeniable ease of
use and functional richness of the
relational model. nearly every data-
base vendol in the market today
calls its oroduct lelational. IBM's
implernentation of SQL in its own
relational offerings, and ANSI's
acloption last year of SQL as the
standard data langtiage. have
REVENUES
(in thousands)
$rz,6rr
1987
l,st Quarter
caused other vendors to glue SQL
or SQL-like front ends onto their
existing products.
Oracle Corporation, however.
was the first company to bring a
software procluct combining these
attributes to market, and was
alone in that rnarket r-rntil 1982. A
year later, the first portable
version of ORACLE was released,
and ports to OEM mainframes,
rninicornputers ancl personal
complrters began. Today, Oracle
products rLrn on more than thirty
different computers and operating
systems: mofe than any oiher
vendor's SQl-based RDBMS.
Oracle has solidified its posi-
tion as tire industry leacler with
the addition to its product line of
an integrated set of advanced
appiication development and
decision sLlpport tools, such as
spreadsheet, graphics and net-
working packages. "Every piece
you ask for," Cubbage concltided.
"they seem to have." I
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2nd Quarter
USDRUIINKIO
HIGHTIGIIT
ORACIE'S
1OIIIBIMHDN
As Oracle Corporation turns 10
years old this year, plans are well
tr RSARY>r

w
under way to celebrate this event
with our users. The forum for the --
celebration will be the Oracle
1987 International User Week, a
three to five-day user conference
to be held the week of Seotem-
ber 27 at the \washington i{ilton
in \Tashington, D.C.
The highlight of the week, as
in past user conferences, will be
Washington
D.C.
the presentation of papers and
seminars by select users as well seminars. Special Interest Groups The pr-rrpose of User \feek,
are being established to focus on according to Jeffrey L. '$Valker,
key user issues, with "camp- Oracle's Chief Financial Officer, is
"This is our usersl grounds" for each group located a three-way commllnication-from
throughout the facility. These Oracle to its users, from users to
euent...designed by will be staffed by resident Oracle, and from users to other
our users - themselues ^re^s
ORACLE experts available for ques- Llsers. "This is oLrf users' event,rl
to meet specific user tions and informal discussions. Walker emphasizes. "It is being
The agenda will also include designed by our users themselves
needs.tl exhibitions by Oracle's wide base to meet specific user needs.
of value-added resellers, third- Oracle is just helping coordinate
as announcements of new product p^rty resellers and OEMs as well the resoutces."
directions and enhancements by as ongoing demonstrations of the The User Week Planning
Oracle personnel. Committees of entire ORACLE line. In addition, Committee has scheduled a series
Oracle users have been at work Oracle personnel will be conduct- of mailings in the coming months
since November planning the ing a wide range of classes-from to announce details of the con-
agenda and soliciting user papers introductory product training to ference and its agenda. In the
and seminar topics. advanced seminars for the soohis- meantime, mark the week of
As the title suggests, how- ticated user. The proposed sched- September 27 on your calendar
ever, User Veek is more than a ule is so fr-rll that the Planning and watch your mail for future
user conference, with participants Committee has exoanded confer- details. r
having a wide range of activities to ence hours to 8:30am-8:3Opm to
complement the papers and allow participants to take full
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ANHwAPPRoacHr0
NlcDonnell Douglas Manufacturing
and Engineering Systems Com-
pany, a leading supplier of
integrated software solutions, has
contracted with Oracle Coroora-
tion to distribute Oracle oroducts
with its Graohics Decisions
System of Turnkey CAD/CAE
products.
The first Oracle RDBMS-basecl
application developed tinder this
agreement is the Facility
Management Decision System
(FMDS). FMDS integrates decision
sLlpport software, relational data-
Dase management, compliter-
aided engineering, and compLlter-
aided design/drafting into a single
comprehensive computer facility
management system. The result is
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an innovative, built-environment
management tool for corporate
facility managers, real estate and
financial executives, and interior
architects.
McDonnell Douglas' overall
objective is to provide a total
integrated solution for the life
cycle of a project. For br-rildings,
tl-ris life cycle ranges fron-r
concept and arcl-ritectural design
through engineering, constnlc-
tion, and ongoing facility manage-
ment. In the infrastructure market-
place this integrated approach is
applicable to projects sr,rch as land
irnprovements, l-righway systems,
and utilities. Here Geographic
Information Systerns assist the
facility mzrnagernent tasks.
The system is being devel-
oped on a platform consisting of
the ORACLE SQt-based RDBMS,
McDonnell's object-oriented CAD
System GDS, and SQL CAD link.
Employing graphics enhanced
SQL commands, users can insert,
update, delete, and display data-
"The ouerall objectiue
of FMDS is to prouide a
c ompleteljt
- integrate d
solution-fo, the total
lifecycle of a project. ''
base contents through graphics
objects on lnaps and building
floor olans.
"The choice of relational
database was clear," says Paul
Scarponcini, Prodr:ct Manager,
Database Applications for Mc-
Donnell Dor,rglas. "The portable,
flexible and extendable nature of
ORACLE r,vas consistent with our
system philosophy. Oracle's
position as the leading lelational
technology vendor confirmed our
selection of a database."
FMDS oDerates on the full
line of DEC VAX harclware. it
addresses such functions as inven-
tory. forecasting, affinity optimi-
zatiofi, stack planning, lease rnan-
agement zrnd spzrce calculations. I
If you have an application or
sllccess story based on your
use of ORACLE, we'd like to
inclucle it in these pages. Call
Tom Hogan ar. (475) 598-8232
or send him a brief descrip-
tion of your project at 20l)avis
Drirre, Belmont, CA, 94002.
l]uForunn:
SruOF
ORACTD T]NX
ANNOT]NCEMENIS
Irr edclition to dcrnonstrating
SQL''Star on five UNIX ports at
the UniFomm trzrdeshou' in Wash- Tower XP are available
ington, D.C., Oracle announced
sir new UNIX ports and three
nen. OEM agreements.
The UNIX polt additions
nr:rke ORACLE available to an
even larger UNIX audience."All of
these machines enjoy a lalge nlilrl-
ber of faithful Llsers, urho can now
I'rar-e the most powerfr-rl UNIX
DB\lS on tlle nrarket toclrry." cx-
pl:rined Bmce Clevelancl. Oracle's
Directol of UNIX Product Line
-\lzrrketing.
rs#;UniForum
Custorners are now able to
.lioose frorn ovcl tn'enty differ-
cllt conlprrtcrs. "Knou ing thlt
ORACLE will n-rn identically on
over t\venty diffelent colnpri-
ters allows our cofporate cLls-
iolrlel's to choose the proper
harcln-zue for their applications.
A.s applications grou' ol shrink.
clrstomers will not be str,rck
n'rtfi a single computer,"
Cier elancl saicl.
Tire six new UNIX ports in-
clr-rcle: NCR. Sun. DEC Ultrix.
Secluent. Altos, ancl Plexus.
E:rclt polt s.ill be equippecl
n.ith: OR,A.CLE RDBMS 5.0,
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SQL*Forms 2, SQL*Plus'n', SQL''Net
(Sun only), Pro*C. Pro*Fortran"',
The Aitos OEM arrangen-rent
is an exclusive one, ploviding
and Stanclard Utilities (e .g., ODS
and ODL).
Altos n'ith wor-ldwide marketing
rigl-rts to sell ORACLE on all cur-
Unclel ti-re NCR OENI agree- rent Altos compllters, inch:ding
ment, NCR has non-exclusive the 3068 snpermicros.
worldwicle marketing lights to TI-re Plexus OEM agreement
Oracle proclucts. The softrvare allows for non-exch:sive worlcl-
versions for Tower 32/600 ancl wide marketing lights to ORACLE
fol the entire Plexus product iine.
immediately. I
Lrooth in orcler to become
Omcmt eligible for tl-re grand prize
clrawing.
GAIBWAYIT) Or.er 3.000 UniForum atten-
I]NXANDBIYONI) clees participatecl in the game,
gaining an increased awareness
In an imaginative clemonstration
of Oracle's proclucts ancl the
of its clistributed clzrtabzrse n,icle range of compLtters that
capabilities. Oracle sponsorecl :r n()\\i run ORACLE.
contest at UniForurl, entitled Congratul:ltions to rl'inners
"ORACLE: Gate$/ay to UNIX Frank Srnitl-r of Reynolds .A
:rncl Beyond."
UniFolurn attendees were
given passpol'ts ancl floor maps
Reynolcls, Kang Yuet-Yr-reh of
AT&T, rncl NIit'ltucl
q'ith instructions to follon, the Fallavollita of Johns
Hopkins
lnap to ezrch of tl-re clesignatecl University
OENI booths. or "realms,"
including: Repr-rblic of AT&T.
Burgl'r of Harlis. Sulphanzrte
of Sequent and Nation
of NCR.
After obtaining zr
stamp from each reahn,
pal'ticipzrnts n'ere zrskecl
to retLll'n thcir pttss-
pol'ts to the Oracle
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NtS3oRacrE sPEaI{s 1956 EI]ROPEAI{
USER CONIENDNCD
YOURIINGUAGD PROCDH)INGS
AVAIIIIBI,.D
\X/herever you live, whether in This is rarely as simple as just
Europe, Asia, Latin America or translating error messages. In the Copies of last year's
the Middle East, there is probablyHebrew version, for example, European Oracle User
a version of ORACLE available in SQL*Forms edits alphabetic text Conference Proceedings
your language. from right to left and numbers are available at" a cost of
"'When your software is used from left to right. \when a field $10.00 from:
all over the world. portability contains a mixture of letters and European User Group
takes on a whole new meaning," numbers it has to change direc- The Berghuis
says Allen Miner, Project Manager tions mid-string. Huizerstraatweg 111
of National Language Support Japanese uses literally thou- NL-1411 GM Naarden
(NLS). "ORACLE runs in so many sands of characters and often The Netherlands
countries that it makes NLS mixes one, two, and three-byte Attention: Jenny Forsberg
particularly challenging. But the characters in a single string. In
spite of these difficulties, the
Japanese version of ORACLE
"In the Hebrew handles all the possible combina- DftmcHIOHoSI
uersion. . .SQL*Forms """'dil:,:l3Ktr errorts are being DIJROPDAI{ USDR
-
edits alphabetic text
from right to left and
s:i:[TJff3. T,':i o'.x',]!?;,
Corporate Sales, notes that "our ", coNTDRDNcE
The fifth annual European Oracle
numbersfrom abiliry to demonstrate National User Conference will take olace
left to right.tl Language versions of ORACLE has Aprrl 26-28 at Bayerische Fiof,
been an important factor in Munich, Germany. The
strides we have akeady made are strengthening Oracle's position as conference, organized and
very encouraging," says Miner. the RDBMS technology and mar- conducted by ORACLE users,
Several architectural en- ket leader in Europe." These ef- attracts cLlstomers from all oarts
hancements to ORACLE Version forts will continue, according to of Eurooe and the Oracle
5.1 have laid the foundation which John Lr-rongo, International Divi- worldwlde cllstomer base.
makes NLS possible. Building on sion Vice President. "\We will This year's agenda inclr-rdes
this foundation, Oracle affiliates in continue to match ORACLE tech- formal presentations by ORACLE
Europe, Israel, Japan and China nology to cLlstomer needs in a users and develooers. Areas of
have implemented versions of way that exemplifies our global focus are: appliCation experi-
ORACLE that satisfy local language commitment." r ences, new products, enhance-
requirements. ments and the latest technical
advances.
For more information,
contact Oracle's International
Division in Belmont. California:
(475) 598-8290.t

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IINGUAGE
BYANSI
-\fter four years of exhaustive re-
r-iew, the American National Stan-
dards Institute (ANSI) declared
Stuctural Query Language (SQL)
the standard language for relation-
el database management systems.
The ANSI subcommittee Llnan-
rmously approved the standard in
February 1985. "After the sub-
committee's acceptance of the
SQL standard, the proposal was
submitted for approval to the
business and technical commun-
in'." explained Dr. Jerry Baker,
Oracle's Director of Product Line
Development and an ANSI board
member.
SQL was first developed as a
research effort by IBM in the
early \970's. In 1.977 Larry Ellison
and Bob Miner used the IBM blue-
orints to develoo the first com-
irercially av ailable, full-function
relational database management
s\-steln. The standardization of
SQL became increasingly neces-
sary as corporations began to
cler.eloo their own versions of the
original product.
The ANSI standard consists of
Level 1, the minimal subset, and
Ler.el 2, the complete standard.
The ANSI sr-rbcommittee is cur-
rently developing ANSI SQL 2,
I
I
extensions to the existing stan-
clzrrd which will add additional
fi-rnctionality.
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DECAWTRDS
FORORACTD
Oracle swept a DEC double-
header by winning fwo first Place
The ANSI standard creates a software awards in December.
common definition for SQL, allow- Oracle's SQL*Star received the
ing users to access heterogenous "Best Database Management
machines. Every corporation that Product" award at the Digital
produces a varration of SQL must Reuiew Target Awards CeremonY
add to their existing language in during the DEXPO-EAST Expo-
such a way as to become ANSI sition in New York. To complete
comDatible. the sweep, Oracle won the
The Intetnational Standards number one rating in the "Digital
Or ganization is currently reviewing News 50" software category.
the ANSI standard. Vith ISO aP- The Target Awards are of
proval, "SQL will truly become soecial distinction because "the
the international standar-d language awards are for the industry, by
for relational databases," stated the industry. Eighty thousand
Baker. "The popularity of rela- qualified buyers in the DEC in-
tional systems indicates that the dustry do the voting," according
relational DBMS is here to stay.... to Jonathan Cohler, Editor-
\fith the approval of SQL as a >- in-Chief of Digital
standard, the trend toward rela- Reuiew.l
r liglfttt rc , --
tional systems will gain increasing
momentllm," he concluded. r NRcnr
.IIIARDS
CORRBCTION
In the previotts issue of this
newslettel, Glenn Bzlrber, new
president of the International
ORACLE User Gloup, was
incorrectlv lepresented as
an independent consultant
working with Oracle.
Mr. Barber is the plesi-
dent of GABA, Inc., an applica-
tion and system software develoP-
ment otgantzatton locatecl in
southern California. r
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