>I'm not sure this makes any sense. You mean Oracle software
>doesn't connect to clients/servers for data?
What Ray Lane meant is Oracle is 100% internet compatible. You
can still use Oracle in the traditional client/server or legacy
sense, but if want you can also use this via internet.
>>Oracle's applications software accesses the database using a Java compatible browser.<<
IE and Netscape browser are both Java compatible broswers. That
should cover most of the broswer market. So it isn't so risk for
Oracle to bank its application software like Designer/2000,
Developer/2000, etc. on those two browsers. As far as accessing
the Oracle DB is concerning, you won't need a JAVA enabled browser,
any broswer will do w/ a database gateway API.
>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?)
Use Developer/2000 as an example, you can create the traditional
client/server application just like you have been for years. But
now in addition, after you've created your c/s apps you can say
'generate JAVA code', that will create the same apps in java code.
>>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)<<
NCA is the wave of future, but it may be called Internet Computing
Architecture (ICA). I believe that Oracle should've put more PR
behind NCA. Promotion of NC is not always about NCA, it is more
about Larry's ego to be Bill-like. NCA doesn't need NC to succeed,
any device with a web broswer can fit into NCA. The future of
technology is about network speed and server. Client software as
we know now will be dead in the future. |
