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To: Francis Chow who wrote (54728)	4/28/1998 8:54:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 186894

I wrote.... Now since they bought it today, it probably runs on unix Ariba is written in Java with a JDBC interface to the underlying dbms, which you can choose to either be Oracle or Sql server. You need the database to run somewhere. Probably intc will install a server to run Ariba, thats my guess. So, since they will be installing it soon, it will probably be a unix box. But if it were a year from now, my guess is the NT platform would be the platform of choice. Dell, otoh is a little more adventurous. Of course they want to test their own servers too. So at least some of their enterprise apps are going in NOW with NT4.0 and Oracle. These are the custom ones, primarily. The Tandem is due to be replaced soon, and there was a corporate decree that every new enterprise app needed to be NT, so my guess is Oracle Financials will be NT based there, on Dell servers of course <g>. Michelle