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To: uncc49ers who wrote (7785)	7/7/1998 3:14:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 19080

uncc49ers, Regarding the problems Oracle apps had with the GUI package... if I remember correctly, a huge part of the problem early on was that Oracle was the "every port" database. They ran on every single unix variant, Data General, VAX etc. There were some issues getting a GUI client to work over all those platforms. So for a time, the character mode client was actually preferable in some ways to some customers vs. the gui stuff from the competition. If Oracle was smart, they would have seen platform convergence in the marketplace and developed a gui client for Windows only (they certainly could have done that). That would have taken oracle pretty far. A bunch of the new enterprise apps vendors are using the msft tools now as a client (Im thinking of Siebel here using VB). With the NCA architecture I guess Oracle isnt forced into that painful decision of having to go with an msft client development package. But, one day it may come to that, if Oracle is grown up now they will realize that client development environments are now msft domain. Michelle