Re: .net and oracle's (10G) object relational features ?

DA Morgan wrote:
> I do. But then I teach at a university just 2 miles from the main
> Microsoft campus. Word in the halls is that .NET is going down as the
> sales of new licenses is near 0 and the revenues, based solely on
> upgrade, insufficient to maintain Ballmer's lifestyle.

Well I'm not sure I normally count gossip as evidence. In this case we are either talking about different things or I just don't understand the gossip. .Net isn't sold as such so the comment as . Sure Visual Studio is sold and there is a new version of that due for release this year, but an IDE isn't the same thing as the framework. In any case Server and Tools which includes the Visual Studio line grew revenue by 18% in the quarter to Dec 31. (admittedly sql server revenue was up 25% but I'll keep stum about that). So all the publicly available evidence suggests MS are rich and getting richer and part of the success driving that is .Net. Word in the Halls doesn't really cut it.

> Remember COM? How about COM+? etc. etc. etc. It is about net profits
> not technology.

Of course I remember COM and COM+ we still have products that use it and use it well, this is likely to continue for at least the next 2 or 3 years. Yes we are seeing suppliers migrate to .Net technology but even COM isn't dead.

Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com Received on Fri Mar 04 2005 - 04:00:01 CST