Oracle Activates New Education Service

  • 03/01/97


Oracle Learning Architecture is a new, Internet-based education service that offers more than 75 courses on popular technology products made by Oracle, Microsoft, Novell and Lotus.

Among the course titles are Oracle InterOffice, Intro to SQL, Using TCP/IP, Lotus Notes 4.0 for Mobile Users, and Microsoft Excel 7.0-Basic.

The best features of the Web, and multimedia content, are found in the coursesí design. Course takers can be located anywhere.

Visit the OLA Web site at http://ola.us.oracle.com. At press time it offered 16 course demos and several courses were available free of charge. Oracle Education, Redwood Shores, CA, (415) 506-4207.

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