Re: Sybase buys Powerbuilder - Is Oracle Dead?

170sys_at_netcom.com (170 Systems) writes:

>Jeff Jacobs (jmjacobs_at_ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: I would imagine that Oracle views this with more than a bit of glee. CDE2 (Forms
>: 4.5, Reports 2.5, etc) will be much more competive with PB, and now PB can
>: no longer claim to server independent.
 

>Why can PB not claim to be server independent still? Have they

   I think Jeff meant PB can no longer claim to be the ONLY front end    to be platform independent.

>announced plans to drop support for all non-Sybase non-RDBMS's?
>I would be surprised if they did, considering Oracle is moving in
>the opposite direction with every new release of CDE.

Rich Holowczak
Rutgers University
holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu Received on Thu Nov 17 1994 - 22:16:34 CET