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To: Mike Milde who wrote (10365)	7/8/1998 9:51:00 AM
From: Scott McPealy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

oracle.com Yahoo! - "Oracle8 was the cheapest solution that we could find. The combination of Oracle8 and NT gives us the performance, speed, and scalability that we need, and it the most cost-effective solution that we could find out there." Doug Smith, Yahoo! ------------------- I guess people care about price too. Sun's horrendously overpriced equipment need not apply.

To: Mike Milde who wrote (10365)	7/8/1998 5:53:00 PM
From: Howard Armstrong	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

<< Any chance I get to do a project in Java, I do it. >> I agree ... Java is definately the most portable languages. The AWT and client-side java has well-known problems, but as a server-side language, Java is tops with me too. It's object-oriented like C++, but much easier to use. The portability is its strongest point, which is why I am confused by the NetDynamics acquisition. NetDynamics uses Java, but in a proprietary way. If you develop a NetDynamics application on NT, you can run it on Solaris ... provided that the exact same version of the NetDynamics server is also running on Solaris, and provided that you use the NetDynamics API in exactly the right way. NetDynamics does not support some key SUNW standards for Java, namely Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Remote Method Invocation (RMI), and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). How can SUNW tell their customers to use RMI and JDBC when they just paid a pile of money for a company that uses CORBA and native connectivity instead? This seems to be a radical change in SUNW's support for Java, and support for their own standards. If they are making this radical a change, something must be wrong. Or, maybe they swallowed NetDynamics in a whim to prevent someone else from taking it over ... but in that case, I am worried about the dilution of the stock for nothing.