Re: pl/sql to be desupported in favour of java? (not!)

On 12/18/2006 09:03:52 AM, Mark W. Farnham wrote:

> Speaking of global Oracle oriented conferences, I wonder if Las Vegas will
> have odds for whether COBOL, Java, or PL/SQL will be extinct first? That
> would be an interesting book to make, since no one will be around long
> enough to have to pay off that bet.

Java is not out of the woods yet. Granted, SUN made it open source, but competitors like C# and Python are eating away its market share. Java became enormous, class libraries like SWING are overly complex and hard to learn, which makes Java rather unpopular as a programming language. As an interpreted language, Java has never been the first choice among geeks, that place has always belonged to Perl. There are many OSS great Java projects, like Eclipse, but in the likely event that Vista will pick up, Java might have a serious competitor in C#. I would be surprised if Oracle Corp. was prepared to tie the destiny of its flagship database with rather insecure fate of Java. Are Java & Oracle the pick of destiny and the world's greatest band, remains to be seen. PL/SQL still stays as the tenacious-P.

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Mladen Gogala
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