>>He (Ray Lane) means that client/server is dead, and that all of Oracle's products are set to enable and support internet
computing., <<
I'm not sure this makes any sense. You mean Oracle software
doesn't connect to clients/servers for data?
>>Oracle's applications software accesses the database using a Java compatible browser.<<
So, anotherwords, JAVA programs (internal to a browser) are
accessing data on data servers? Same difference seems to
me. One can say that, they're just recoding a database
app, that has had the client/server functions cut out
of it, with JAVA programming language.
btw...who's browser is it, or are they using Netscape's Java
browser? Is Netscape finished with it's JAVA browser yet?
And do people know that is considered a security risk by
many users?
Are all new (skip existing) Oracle products going to made
for a JAVA environment? Doesn't anybody have a problem with
this being that JAVA is not an established software standard,
and has a reputation of being deathly slow? Another words,
is Oracle basing it's future on the success of JAVA???
>>Their Oracle Developer tools and servers can still generate client/server apps but that same application runs on an application server,<<
So, the Oracle Developer tools are JAVA based also? And this
software creates client/server software (so it's not dead, just
that Oracle doesn't wants to create client/server software
directly, but only through another program that creates
client/software programs?)
>>Their Oracle Designer CASE software generates web enabled Developer apps or HTML code.<<
Can it generate C++ code? Would this be similar to a visual C++,
but probably having a library of modules/objects specific to database functions?
>>As he put it to the New York Oracle Users Group this past Wednesday, it was never about $500 NC hardware, it was always about NCA (Network Computing Architecture)<<
Yes, how convenient that he reorganizes his thoughts and terminology
to fit a more specific philosophy/architecture now. Why
didn't he do this before? Probably because he didn't have the
concept down that well and was thinking somewhat along hardware
lines to begin with. If this isn't the case, then Mr. PR man himself
did a horrible job at managing the PR for the NC itself.
I'm still trying to find a reason tha Oracle is a new breed of
company for the future. One that hopefully is not dependent
on only database products written in JAVA. If Ellison is trying
to change the world into his view (JAVA), then I think I'd rather
wait a bit and see how future products are accepted.
Any thoughts anyone? Or am I totally out of line here?
joe |
