OCLC SELECTS ORACLE AS ITS NEW DATABASE ENGINE FOR FIRSTSEARCH.
Online Libraries & Microcomputers, September, 2001
In July 2001, OCLC announced that it has selected Oracle (r) database technology as the new platform for WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) and its online services in cataloging, resource sharing and reference as part of its global strategy to transform WorldCat into a globally networked, web-based information resource of text, graphics, sound and motion. Up until this type OCLC has developed its own database management system called Newton. OCLC had made substantial progress on a new database system called PEARS that would have been the successor to Newton for both FirstSearch as well as the SiteSearch product in which OCLC licenses its Newton engine for the local loading of databases. Earlier during the summer of 2001, OCLC announced that it would cease...
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