Re: "We don't do triggers"

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:3fc36a14$0$13347$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...

| > Advantages to J2EE:
| > Portable
| What is the advantage of this for the *client* customer. How often do they
| change architectures?
| > Object-oriented
| > Vendor independent
| So what.

|

if you're developing a commercial product, these are major concerns

if i'm selling to MS shops and Oracle shops, i've got to have an architecture that supports both databases -- either two code sets, or a middle tier -- but then, how many middle tier options do i support? but you get the idea.

polytheism is still practiced in the database world -- despite reports to the contrary, neither larry nor bill have yet achieved status of sole universal sovereign ;-)

• mcs