I am convinced from listening to LE speak (I know, I know) that he
believes that there is something real here, and so do I. The app
server market is already growing quickly, and the products that are
currently available don't scale well at all (compared to RDBMS
engines, at least). 8i is the first step in making a scalable,
integrated platform that supports enterprise applications written in
Java. If they do that, they will have a story that will even more
compelling for e-commerce than an RDBMS, and when you consider that
it comes *with* an RDBMS that people want anyway, it looks pretty
hard to beat.
The questions are: 1) can Oracle deliver, and 2) will what they
deliver be compelling enough that people will start writing enterprise
applications in Java?
I'd say 1 looks fairly good so far. I think that 2 is less clear, but
it's worth a bet.
The Java stuff may be all baloney, since only LE's head-shrinker knows
for sure, but there is a vision that can be constructed out of all of
this, and I find it very interesting. |
