1. Update from Oracle OpenWorld, November 15th-18th 1999, Los Angeles Eric Grancher IT/DB

2. ODF, February 17 th 2000 The conference n 18'000 attendees + 500 technical sessions + 120 hands-on sessions + 300 exhibitors = biggest Oracle event ever n Campground + panel sessions + “ask Oracle” sessions were very efficient places to retrieve information n Few sessions about Y2k :-)

3. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 RDBMS n Lot of sessions related to tuning and VLDB n 8iR2 (=8.1.6) announced at the conference, mostly bug fixes + integration of external products (OID, XML…) n New Enterprise Manager (version 2.1) n OPS widely used (even internally) n 40+ TB database are used

4. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 iFS n File are stored as LOB, indexed using InterMedia n Automatic extraction of properties and indexing of documents n Accessible using SMTP/IMAP4, SMB/CIFS, HTTP (both file management and administration) n Security based on the database, ACLs can be used n Makes use of transactions, check-in/check- out, file versioning n API to extend iFS (from new content type to renderer) n Beta 2 (C rewrite) was about to be released (now out) Win95WinNT SMB CIFS Oracle8i/iFS IMAP4 HTTP Net8

5. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 WebDB n WebDB version 3 seems to be the version to go, manageability has been increased: –virtual users –several applications in one account –authentication via LDAP (OID), common for RDBMS+WebDB –future release will store documents in iFS –“It’s not just for simple applications anymore” n 2000Q2? WebDB HTTP Create DB objects Create reports Create forms Create menus

6. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 JDeveloper n 2 versions –JDeveloper n Java IDE (JBuilder from Inprise) + BC4J, SQLJ, JDBC, EJB, Java in the RDBMS, Servlet –JDeveloper Enterprise Edition n UML modeler n shares it repository with Designer n Several modelers : case, activity, type, component, package, database designer n Several generators : instant Java, server model, server generator, BC4J. n No merging with Designer n Mid 2000?

7. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 Java in the RDBMS n direct calls to Java Stored Proc via HTTP in 8.1.7 (JSP + Servlets), release 2000Q3? n JAccelerator, translation of the bytecode into ANSI C, native compilation, link with DLL at execution. Released with 8.2 (2001Q1?)

8. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 OAS n No big news n New cartridges, JWeb replaced by JServlet n “PL/SQL cartridge will stay forever”, manager said n Sessions on tuning for the web (99%)

9. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 XML n Using XML within the RDBMS has been drastically enhanced n Java, PL/SQL and C parsers n XML SQL utility n XSQL Server

10. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 Developer / Designer n Designer (2000Q1?) and Developer (2000Q2?) will go version 6i (=6.5) n Designer 6i : configuration management, impact analysis… n Developer : developer server, Java, EJB and Advanced Queuing integration n Designer to generate web applications

11. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 Directions n WebDB n JDeveloper n Java (but PL/SQL will stay “forever” and is still enhanced) n iFS n OPS + small # of fatter nodes n Refocus on core and externalize n Few about ORDBMS n Business oriented & portals/portlets

12. Eric Grancher IT/DBODF, February 17 th 2000 Proceedings on the web http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index2.html Report (with link to some papers) : http://home.cern.ch/grancher/oug/ioug/oow1999.html (PL/SQL performance, finding the performance bottleneck in your application, Java for PL/SQL programmer, WebDB3 preview, XML in the server, OAS tuning...)