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Perhaps the most interesting development in 8i is the Internet File System (iFS) which mimics Windows Explorer. He also stresses 8i's new security features, now based in the database's kernel security being of paramount importance for an Internet database. Its ability to support thousands of users using advanced new clustering architecture and load-balancing techniques. Its high availability (doesn't crash) in the case of distributed databases, Other new features highlighted by Fergus Gloster, support manager with Oracle Ireland, areĨi's better handling of unstructured data (text documents and audio files, for example), Along with Java, support of HTML and XML and the emphasis on building database-driven web-sites, rather than just databases, explain the "i" in Oracle8i. It includes a database-resident Java Virtual Machine which means that built-in Java code can be executed on the database server. Oracle claims that its latest database release Oracle8i, shipped this month, is the world's first Internet database.
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Company databases will no longer be able to use proprietary software but will have to adhere to Internet standards for network protocols, application development languages and, of course, the user interface. Application programs, files, video and sound will dissolve into a Web-based soup which the fortunate user can spoon up with a Web browser. Older stand-alone or client-server computer environments (the first and second paradigms) will, we are told, melt away.
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Database development may never be the same again and, as usual, the Internet is the driving force for change. It's not the Third Secret of Fatima but the Third Paradigm of Computer Usage - and it's not so much shrouded in mystery as obscured by hype.