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To: syborg who wrote (8464)	9/24/1998 12:55:00 PM
From: Michael Olin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

I disagree. Oracle is working at having O8i be a complete platform. They are providing a web server and JVM within the database server to work towards that goal. If Java was just an alternative language to PL/SQL then a lot of the work they have done is pretty much pointless. I think that their emphasis on how fast and lean their JVM is points towards their view that O8i will be used as an integrated platform. One of my clients is running their e-commerce site with an Oracle database on the back end, Netscape web server and a front end that is completely written in Java. The Oracle people I've talked to see this as the type of application that could live completely within the database. If the information about memory requirements that has been put out is correct (<100K per user), the potential exists for supporting huge numbers of users if O8i is your platform (and you get rid of the boxes you are using as web and application servers). I also think that neither Oracle or the Oracle developer community is quite sure how to best use Java in the database. The tools people at Oracle need to figure out how to integrate Java into their products. The Java people need to know how developers see themselves working so that they make sure that the necessary infrastructure is built (integration with SQL, mechanism for calling PL/SQL stored procedures, etc.). This is not going to happen overnight. I would guess that it will be at least a year, maybe more, before Oracle's customers really figure out how all of this works with their applications. Further on, Java may completely replace PL/SQL as a language, but I think that it will be used for more than that. -Michael