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To: Jean M. Gauthier who wrote (8840)	4/6/1998 9:11:00 AM
From: Chris McConnel	Respond to of 64865

It's funny but Microsoft secret weapon in the TCO war is most likely going to be Terminal Server aka Hyrda, which will use a protocol that is very similar to X-Windows. Citrix is making a ton of money selling a modified version of NT3.51 that sends out their own protocol called ICA, so I'm assuming the Hydra will sell well too (i know we will be buying a couple copies of Hydra.) So if Citrix/MS can make money of this, why couldn't Sun? What I don't understand is why Sun is not pushing Oracle, Sybase and Informix to make Java the standard language for stored procedures in their SQL databases. IMO this is where Java is needed the most, since they all seem to have their own derivative language. Stored procedures is probably where a good portion of server side programming is being done. There was a big article in the March Byte talking about this very problem, lack of portability of procedure code. Sun should be defining a very elegant, straight forward version of Java for SQL. If they are, I have not heard about it. - Chris