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To: Matt Harris who wrote (6679)	4/3/1998 12:12:00 PM
From: Punko	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

Who among you have seen Oracle's NCA apps. I have. The technology is awesome. It's a 100% java front end that, while it currently requires an applet viewer on the client, Sun's upcoming jvm will solve that problem, allowing these apps run without a hitch over a 28.8K line on netscape's newer (and free) browsers. Soon after the browser, expect support for NC's. In a corporate lan environment, the NCA apps look and behave just like the old 10sc front end, and they perform on par with similar fat client configurations, and significantly better than file server installations requiring massive executable transfers to the client each time a form is accessed. Needless to say NCA apps' performance eats Citrix-based architectures for breakfast. The NCA apps are very bandwidth efficient, and with the new load-balancing, scalable apps server software Oracle's delivering, you can expect 20-40 users per Solaris cpu (I've heard about 20 per NT cpu). Max out on users? Just add (not replace) box. The front end is the best implementation of Java I've seen. If you want to see the full power of Java, take a current Dev2k 1.2 or 1.3 form, recompile it using the new Developer 2k v1.6 for use with the Developer 2k apps server cartridge and voila, instant thin client NCA app. This stuff is shipping now.

To: Matt Harris who wrote (6679)	4/3/1998 12:53:00 PM
From: syborg	Respond to of 19080

I really do not think I have missed the point. Java is a technology applied to the NC device. Java does not need the NCA to succeed, it is already a success. The real question is if corporations want to buy into the NCA architecture in an effort to quickly introduce new devices on the network. In a very abstract sense corporations have already spoken on this front by dismissing the AppleTalk protocol. Certainly using AppleTalk it was VERY easy to introduce new devices on the network. Problem, chatty protocol which slowed down the information sharing. Granted NCA has some hardware performing handshaking with the server instead of software. The question you should ask yourself is should corporations buy into the somewhat closed NCA in an effort to leverage open technologies like Java? Can you grasp what I am saying? As far as speed of Java execution and bandwidth... ORCL does not have an lock on JDBC. Many vendors provide native communications protocols to run JDBC on top of. The real speed advantage comes from how you architect your solution. Data buffering, multi-tier, etc... syborg