Developing mobile applications is a hot area of development, and Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is aggressively moving to make such developments easier for computer programmers. Smart phones are not only used for communication, but increasingly are being used for business purposes such as warehouse product scanning and tracking, as tools to assist in logistics management and even a more effective method to handle trade show booth attendance. Encouraging developers to adopt new tools using their database applications can be critical to success, which is behind Oracle’s bid to attract more developers with its Mobile Application Framework (MAF), whose goal is to…
Oracle Moves To Cater To Mobile Developers
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.