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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (12664)	12/17/1998 4:35:00 AM
From: Michael Bukva	Respond to of 64865

Good points - all these technical attributes of Java go to improved productivity on both client-side and server-side programming, which goes to time and cost to market, which goes to the bottom line. I recall a range of studies showing Java programmers could be anywhere up to an order of magnitude more productive than C++ programmers. The single biggest factor is that most bugs relate to memory management, which Java does for you. Someone once described Java as "C++ with the knives taken out". Java on all types of server has lots of "value-add"... On a web server, using Java via the servlet API or Java Server Pages is much more scalable and secure than traditional cgi-bin scripting. In a typical business you see more platform variety on the server side (application servers, database servers) than on the client side. Java and Enterprise Java Beans APIs are the natural building blocks for tools, eg Weblogic, Novera, Tengah, Bluestone, NetDynamics that get the data out from many sources, integrate, present and web enable it. You can also write your Oracle (and Sybase, ?Informix?) server-side "scripts" in Java now, rather than the traditional proprietary languages like Oracle's PL/SQL.