Oracle Corp has revealed four new components that will be built into Oracle7 release 7.3, which is scheduled for release in early 1996. Oracle Enterprise Manager is a new systems management product family with graphical drag-and-drop administration tools. It includes open applications programming interfaces for integrating with hardware and third-party software. It also comes with a central console for configuring, distributing and managing all Oracle software. The Oracle Replication Manager is a graphical administration tool that integrates with Enterprise Manager. It has drag-and-drop tools to configure, schedule and administer data replication. The Oracle Replication Service is a suite of products that provides access to mainframe and open systems data from IMS/DB, VSAM, Adabas, Informix, Sybase, Ingres, DB2/MVS, and DB2/400. The final new component is SQLNet version 2.3 communications software. It includes SQLNet Open, which enables access by non-Oracle, non-database applications via the aforementioned open application programming interface; SQLNet Plug-and-Play Option, which automatically configures SQL Net clients and servers; SQL Net Client Status Monitor, a graphical tool that summarises network configurations; and a new network load balancing feature which creates multiple connection routes from a client to a single data source. Meanwhile, several third party management tool makers have revealed their intentions to integrate with Oracle Enterprise Manager. They include Banyan Systems Inc, BMC Software Inc, Bull Information Systems, Cabletron Systems Inc, Compuware Corp, Data Tools Inc, DBMX Ltd, Eventus Software Inc, ISA Corp, Prolin International, Redwood Business Group BV, OpenVision, Platinum Technology Inc, and Tivoli Systems Inc.
