Jon:
Here is something for you to mull on:
<<<Oracle kills Sedona object development tool:
The product that had been touted as Oracle Corp.'s next-generation object development tool was consigned to history by the company yesterday.
Sedona was dropped because its underlying foundations -- Microsoft Corp.'s Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Windows and the Basic language -- "couldn't meet the requirements of our application division or large customers," said Dennis Moore, vice president of marketing at Oracle Tools, a division of the company. "People want a much more productive, object-oriented language like Java," he said.
However, Oracle intends to release parts of Sedona, such its modeling object capabilities, to developers. "Most of the technology is going to come out, one way or another," Moore said.
Sedona, which was in development for two years, had been in trouble for some time. The project was unveiled last November and hyped as a next-generation development tool.
Mitch Kramer, an analyst at Patricia Seybold Group in Boston, said one problem with Sedona was its lack of support for Java -- an element that was especially needed with the rise of the Internet and network computing. "They should take a big hit for that," Kramer said.>>>
The full story can be found at:
computerworld.com
Regards,
Karim |
