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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (10691)	5/13/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

I think that you are probably right about strategy, but I disagree about the technical point. You don't necessarily need to rewrite an application in order to connected it via something like HTTP. There is certainly some risk in a company betting on Java, but the risk is in whether tools and standards in the future will be based around the language. The existing application can stay where it is, assuming that it works okay where it is, which is generally not the case. Java in the enterprise isn't just hype -- there are lots problems with the fat-client model, and companies are looking for some way out. Whether Oracle has a good answer remains to be seen, but the problem is real.