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September 25, 2000 |
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OracleMobile To Host Data For Wireless Devices
Oracle subsidiary will adjust clients' content for different protocols
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ackling two growing trends at the same time, Oracle is moving into the wireless application service provider market. It will manage data for businesses that can be accessed by mobile devices.The software company's OracleMobile will connect its systems--which run the Oracle8i database and Oracle iAS Wireless Edition applications--to a client's network through a set of tools and APIs, according to Jacob Christfort, VP and chief technology officer of product development for OracleMobile. OracleMobile will create a custom Web site for the client and adjust its content to support various standards, such as CHTML, HDML, WML, and Palm HTML, to connect to mobile devices, including Web phones, personal digital assistants, and pagers. OracleMobile has partnered with content provider ScreamingMedia Inc. to distribute its syndicated content to wireless devices.
Evite Inc., an online invitation and event communications service in San Francisco, plans to offer wireless access to E-mailed invitations, as well as to connect users to maps and direction services via personal digital assistants and cell phones. "We're connecting to OracleMobile because we're already operating our back end with Oracle, and we hope that will make it an easy process," says Al Lib, Evite's chief technology officer and co-founder.
Other companies simply like the fact that the service comes from Oracle. "We know that OracleMobile will be there six months from now," says Chris Binstadt, director of business development for Food.com. An online source of food and dining information and services in San Francisco, Food.com wants to make restaurant listings available through wireless devices and to let customers order meals online.
The market may already be getting crowded. "There are too many mobile solutions; this time next year, we'll see only half of them," says Terry Nozick, VP of market research at Mobile Insights. "But we know Oracle will be there with a mobile solution."
The OracleMobile service is available now with a setup fee based on network requirements, and a hosting fee of $1 to $10 per user per month, based on volume.
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