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To: Hardly B. Solipsist who wrote (6617)	5/27/1999 8:08:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

Re: ORCL as a Thin-Client Solution "This would be a serious drawback if it were true, but it isn't. The "i initiative" that Oracle is pushing is to encourage people to write server applications in Java. That is, the application logic runs in the server and is written in Java." Hardly, Thanks for the response. Apparently Java originally was considered an application that had intentions of sending the app down the pipe, to be processed on the client, via the interpreter. But you are saying that Oracle's "i" plans are different. Oracle's plans call for the processing to be done on the server directly. Processing a program written in Java yet it's not sent down to the client. Interesting. Now if I got that right(which I may not?), when it comes right down to it, isn't Oracle basically sending screen refreshes down to the browser for display? ----------- "The idea is that instead of writing the application to run in some homemade server using Apache and perl and OCI and an RDBMS all together, you just write the application to run in the database and have the database be the webserver." Gee now if I can just figure this out, then maybe I can finally understand where Oracle is trying to position themselves! If you, or any CTXS readers can expound on this, it sure would be great. Obviously all of the above is of interest to CTXS investors because Oracle's solution is another way of skinning the same cat. Of course the target markets are quite different now, but who knows when the Java world will begin to merge with the ICA world. Thanks, MikeM(From Florida)