Oracle Corp and IBM announced the availability of Oracle Applications for IBM’s OS/390 mainframe operating system at Oracle’s user group conference in San Diego this week. Oracle’s standard set of SmartClient Applications modules, which have been available to other Oracle users since mid-1995, include more than 30 Oracle business modules for financial management, supply chain management, manufacturing, human resources, project control and market management. SmartClient modules support Windows- based or Java-supporting web browsers on the client side, accessing corporate data on IBM System 390 mainframes via corporate networks, intranets or the Internet. Also available are Oracle Applications for the Web, Oracle Applications Data Warehouse and Oracle Express OLAP on-line analytical processing modules. IBM has apparently demonstrated the Applications modules running 1,600 concurrent users at its IBM Teraplex Center in Poughkeepsie, New York on a S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server. Oracle got its Oracle 7 Parallel Server up and running on MVS – the old name for OS/390 – back in February (CI No 2,847).
