This is a text description of imarch.gif. Oracle8i provides an API and extensibility framework to build support for domain specific data services. The interMedia architecture provides a set of services (image, document, audio, video, and location) and features (storage, management, maintenance, retrieval, annotation, URL Web access) that provides a framework on which media-rich content as well as traditional data are supported in the database. This content and data can then be securely shared across multiple applications written with popular languages  such as OCI, SQL, C, C++, and Java and tools such as interMedia Web Agent, Clipboard, and Annnotator utility. The Web content can be easily managed and administered by relational database management and administration technologies, and offered on a scalable server that supports thousands of users. Access to the Web content is by thin clients (Web browser with Java applet) or thick clients (end user application or Web page composer) directly from the database through Java interfaces or through middle tier Web servers.