“Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software
for e-business, today announced it will kick off its 24-city
Oracle(R) iDevelop2000 conference series on May 16, 2000, at the
Oracle campus in Redwood Shores. In its second year, iDevelop2000
is Oracle’s premier event for the Internet developer community, and
will feature sessions on building the latest e-business
applications using the Oracle Internet Platform. This year, Oracle
has invested $30 million into making iDevelop2000, “The Power To
Develop,” the world’s largest Internet development conference
series.”
“iDevelop2000 participants around the world will attend track
sessions taught by key technical experts from the Oracle product
development team. Oracle instructors will provide in-depth
information on using the Java, Linux and Extensible Mark-up
Language (XML) capabilities within Oracle’s latest software —
Oracle8i(TM) Release 2, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Portal
Framework and Oracle Internet File System (iFS).”
“Oracle’s worldwide iDevelop2000 conference series expects
record attendance based on early registration and the continued,
rapid growth of its developer community, which now tops 750,000
members. At the first iDevelop seminar in April 1999, Oracle’s
developer community was just over 200,000 members — Oracle
Technology Network has grown 350% in the last 12 months.”