Re: Development of Oracle Power Objects for OS/2 stopped!!! E-Mail Campaign!!!

From: <lclark_at_ibm.net>
Date: 1996/03/28
Message-ID: <4jeas6$42se_at_news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>#1/1


In <4jddej$1gi8_at_saba.info.ucla.edu>, bbraun_at_ucla.edu (Benjamin Braun) writes:
>In <3158769f.3747203_at_nntp.peg.apc.org>, gordonh_at_acslink.net.au (Gordon E. Hooker) writes:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I suppose everyone is entitled to an opinion about these things, mine being - if
>>I were spending R&D $'s I would be spending it on products that have a large
>>market share. If Oracle don't think OS/2 has a large enough market share to
>>spend OPO R&D $'s on a port at this point in time, then I would have second
>>thoughts about developing on OS/2.
>>
>
>OK, but the OS/2 market rivals the Mac market in size, and is probably growing
>more quickly. So why is Oracle choosing to make OPO for Mac but not OPO for
>OS/2? This makes no sense to me, especially given the strength of OS/2's SOM --
>seems like aperfect match for the OPO object-oriented model.
>
>Benjamin Braun
>Team OS/2

Well, there is Smalltalk Visualage with support for Oracle out of the box. There is the Oracle Universal Server for WARPSERVER. Received on Thu Mar 28 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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