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To: Hardly B. Solipsist who wrote (17713)	12/19/2002 4:00:33 PM
From: Michael Olin	Read Replies (1) of 19079

Hardly, This "but inertia and politics got in the way" is exactly what has so many of us worried. I will (if I ever get the work finished) be ready to install a new custom built application for one of my clients in January. It is an Oracle database, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports rewrite of a system I built for them in MS Access 8 years ago ("because we already have Office on everyone's PC"). There is no way I am installing the latest version Oracle's app server because it just isn't worth the headache. We (members of the NY Oracle User's Group) have already expressed our displeasure at having to not only license but also INSTALL over 100 components of 9iAS when all we want is Apache (web listener) and Forms and Reports services. Now we're forced to install LDAP too! I've expressed my opinion here before that Larry's vision of the future is quite often correct, but usually so far ahead of everyone else that it gets dismissed out of hand. Now that he is more involved (post Ray Lane) in the day-to-day direction of the company, we end up with products that are perhaps too far ahead of their time for anyone to use them effectively. Users can't argue with Larry about product direction, you get nowhere. We can talk to Ken Jacobs about our concerns with the DB server and walk away feeling that we might actually see something for our efforts. Maybe that's because now the DB Server is cruising along below Larry's radar. The app server is entirely a different story, it's front and center on his radar screen, but we are having problems just getting it up and running today. We DO need the solutions that the entire industry will come to embrace in 4 or 5 years, just not yet. -Michael

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