The latest applications development tool from Oracle Corp, Belmont, California is Oracle Graphics, designed to provide users with graphic analysis of time-varying database information: it combines computer graphics, distributed database, and user interface technologies into one tool that enables applications developers to present database information graphically; it enables users to create over 50 different types of charts and alter more than 60 different chart parameters; it’s available now on Sun Microsystems workstations and will be available on DEC VAXstations during the third quarter, at from $1,400 for a single-user licence on Sun-3 and Sun-4 to $19,000 for a 64-user licence.
