ABSTRACT
In 1989 Oracle became, in terms of turnover, the world’s second largest independent software company. The scope of Oracle’s computer aided systems engineering (CASE) solution, it believes, will be determined by a number of aspects of openness, in conjunction with the technologies and product characteristics necessary to implement them. Effective system generation, producing 3GL or 4GL code with associated physical data storage definitions, can be based on user requirements and design decisions held in a repository. The lack of agreed standards is a significant obstacle to truly open CASE environments, but the architecture of the Oracle CASE tool set should allow relevant standards to be supported rapidly when they are ratified and adopted. Oracle has identified a key role for IBM’s repository manager, and this will use the common programming interface of application development cycle.
