Data warehousing will continue to be very hot because it’s extremely beneficial to companies. Multimedia will be important because it enables a wide range of applications in the area of training and education, as well as commercial retailing applications designed to run on kiosks. And the Web will definitely change the nature of applications. The products that we’ll be coming out with will be very different from what is available today. Most Internet products came out of academia or had basic capabilities that appealed to lots of users. The next generation of products will be integrated with corporate data and drive computing back to the servers. We’ll see more componentware coming off the net as opposed to software-heavy clients that create lots of management issues.
Predictor: Held, Jerry
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 Network World article, senior editor Barb Cole spoke with Jerry Held, Oracle senior vice president of sever technology. Cole quotes Held saying: ”The World-Wide Web is an on-ramp to the Internet for the technologically challenged. As a result of the Web, the average consumer is now network-aware. We will encourage our customers to think of the Web as a gateway to corporate databases … Data warehousing will continue to be very hot because it’s extremely beneficial to companies. Multimedia will be important because it enables a wide range of applications in the area of training and education, as well as commercial retailing applications designed to run on kiosks. And the Web will definitely change the nature of applications. The products that we’ll be coming out with will be very different from what is available today. Most Internet products came out of academia or had basic capabilities that appealed to lots of users. The next generation of products will be integrated with corporate data and drive computing back to the servers. We’ll see more componentware coming off the net as opposed to software-heavy clients that create lots of management issues.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Network World
Title, headline, chapter name: Oracle exec gives glimpse into company’s future
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 37
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne