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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (27244)	6/27/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

Let me pose a query (no pun intended) to you Can you lay out (or anyone for that matter) the processing steps one must take to access a non-NDS enabled Oracle database over the web vs an NDS enabled Oracle database. My understanding is that if XML is used by the site to which you want to send data, say in response to a form they would normally put up in HTML, it isn't necessary to go through the processing steps of converting the data you are sending into the proper format for the database schema, XML does that for you. I could put my name and address into any XML compliant site's database without knowing anything about the actual field layout database schema etc. Is this correct? Now take a look at a NDS enabled database. My guess is that with NDS at the site end of the pipe, you can bypass the HTML form entirely and access the various fields in the database as permissioned objects --- you get access to that database and those fields to which you are entitled. So with NDS we are in effect sending a database record key with attached XML compliant data packets to fill out the fields around the net rather than HTML forms with embedded interpreter processing commands. Gotta be some serious overhead eliminated here using the Novell technology !!! Comprende? So someone lay out the processing time using NDS and XML vs using a HTML forms and CGI or whatever please. Or am I missing something entirely?