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To: joe who wrote (9096)	12/11/1998 3:34:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

I don't know what 100% means, either. But it is the case that with 8i in place, essentially everything in a database will be internet enabled if you write a servlet (?sp) to expose that functionality and/or data. Obviously if you have some legacy application that runs its client in some ancient terminal driver, this doesn't solve your problem entirely, because you'd have to write the code to generate HTML for the UI, but that's still not that hard. And ORCL appears to be aggressively internet-ifying legacy systems. This is really just the start, though, since once 8i is "completely out there" anyone with a Java book will be able to write a database application that anyone with internet access can use. This won't just be good for ORCL...