PRNewswire: Oracle Ships iFS, the Internet File System – First File Systems Innovation in 20 Years

“Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software
for e-Business, today announced availability of Oracle(R) Internet
File System (iFS), which combines the simplicity of the Windows
file system with the powerful information management features of
Oracle8i(TM). Now with iFS, companies can easily manage all their
content in a single repository, content which is currently
scattered across PC desktops, document management systems and web
sites. This innovation yields tremendous gains in efficiencies for
e-Businesses faced with the mounting problem of managing the
variety and high-volume of content — not just data — being
generated by the Internet, business-to-business exchanges,
e-commerce and enterprise portals.”

“In spite of the proliferation of the Internet and tremendous
innovation within the software industry, the file system has been
virtually unchanged in the past 20 years. Oracle iFS is the first
file system designed for the Internet. It brings order to today’s
document chaos, supporting the storage and management of over 150
different file types, including documents created using Extensible
Markup Language (XML). Independent software vendors (ISVs),
especially XML and image document management application vendors,
are embracing iFS as a means to innovate their applications
rapidly-delivering advances in functionality which were for all
intents and purposes impossible to achieve under the primitive
architectural constraints of the Windows file system. (See separate
press release.) “

“Available immediately, Oracle iFS includes… Browser-based
access from any operating system: Users are not constrained by
the standard Windows Explorer interface, they are free to access
their files using a standard web browser. This is useful for remote
access over dial-up lines or access from any other client machines
such as Linux, iMac and UNIX.”

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