Following its announcement of Oracle*Mail and Case*Generator in Brussels for Europe a couple of weeks ago – they arrived in the US at the end of last year – Oracle Corp is continuing the drive to integrate its database products across as many computer systems as possible. A new Version 4.1 of the Case*Dictionary can now automatically generate database designs for IBM’s DB2, and Version 1.1 of Case*Designer includes a data flow diagramming capability, to support the SSADM standard set by the UK Government’s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency. Both tools now run on IBM PS/2 and compatibles under OS/2 with Presentation Manager, on DEC VAXstations under DECWindows, and on the HP9000/300 under Unix. The new enhancements are a response to specific user requests according to Oracle’s vice president of Case, Richard Barker. Oracle’s projected revenues for its first year of Case sales, June 1988-89, are expected to top $10m. Whilst Oracle has been particularly vocal about its new products over the past few weeks, the company is keeping completely quiet about the plans for a supercomputer version of the Oracle database revealed here recently. The fastgrowing Belmont, California company, which is currently forcasting overall growth of 60% for its fiscal 1990, is also expected to come out with a new line of manufacturing applications software over the next few weeks.
