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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hardly B. Solipsist who wrote (9101)	12/11/1998 3:48:00 PM
From: joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

>>And ORCL appears to be aggressively internet-ifying legacy systems.<< Absolutely nothing wrong with this. The internet is the next step in everything. Utilizing it more efficiently will change most businesses and make shareholders a lot of $$. >>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 is the problem. (read my previous post) Seems to me that Ellison is trying to create a standard for the internet (nothing wrong with this). The problem is that he is basing it on JAVA, an unproven entity still. And he is trying to control the standard with his PR-hype. I know that Ellison knows software very well, but knowing that, I wonder why he resorts to hype so much. My conclusion is that there's not much to support his arguments. What he's trying to do isn't brain surgery. MSFT will tear up his model of the "software/internet future" if he doesn't put some meat on its bones. JMO. Standards are good. I don't think the computer world will go for the SUN/ORACLE standard if Ellison and Nealy are in control. Gates can do just as good a job at monopolizing. JMO