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To: grogger who wrote (6823)	4/6/1998 9:34:00 PM
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Oracle Will Rewrite Applications As Components (04/06/98; 5:53 p.m. EST) By John Foley and Rich Levin, InformationWeek Oracle said it plans to rewrite its entire application suite as a collection of Java components, signaling a wholesale migration of its application source code to the object model. The rewrite plans, to be unveiled at next month's Oracle Applications User Group conference in San Diego, will be made possible by an update of Oracle's Designer/2000 modeling tool. "We think apps should be developed through data models and process models, not through coding of any kind, including Java," Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said in an interview Friday. The object model will appear in version 12 of Oracle's applications, which are due by mid-1999. Version 2.1 of Designer/2000, which is slated to ship this month, will generate 100 percent of an application's source code from an object model, compared with about 70 percent of code with the current release. Ellison called the Designer/2000 upgrade "the most important product Oracle has developed since the database." Oracle's strategy could put it in a stronger position to deliver application integration than its enterprise resource planning competitors. In theory, IT shops could take the same model- and repository-driven tools used to build Oracle's enterprise resource planning solutions and extend, integrate, or redesign applications into custom systems and vertical business processes. But analysts said it won't be easy. "It's going to benefit IT shops that adopt the [Oracle] tools," said Michael Barnes, an analyst with the Hurwitz Group. "But just learning the model is going to take an enormous amount of time." Meanwhile, Oracle's stock was down 6.5 percent on Friday, in part due to a report that network computers (NCs) are not selling as well as analysts -- and Ellison himself -- had once forecast. Nevertheless, Ellison said companies are rapidly moving toward network computing, using low-cost PCs instead of NCs. "Let's not confuse the network computer with network computing," he said. "Network computing is winning overwhelmingly."