Rauf Sarwar wrote:
> The thing that caught my attention above was "...open and portable
> alternative to PL/SQL for stored procedures". Is Oracle really trying
> to slowly sneak Java in to replace PL/SQL? I guess only Oracle knows
> the answer to that question. This is only one article... but the fact
> that Oracle magazine published it carries some weight.
>
> /Rauf Sarwar
Well, my thoughts on this (I never joined the previous thread) follow
along the lines of marketing. How many times have you seen magazine
reviews of software apps that contain those checklists of things
included in each package reviewed? Well, Oracle needed to have a
checkmark next to Java VM for all those managers who had more money than
tech savvy (who wouldn't know Java if it jumped up and bit them ... but
have certainly seen the name in print a zillion times). Those managers
might decide to buy something else if that other product had a checkmark
in the Java VM column and Oracle didn't.
Maybe Larry has seen these magazine reviews too. Maybe that's why 9iAS
has checkmarks for Apache and Portals and all the other eBuzzwords that
run rampant in the trade mags seen by the people who control the purse
strings of the business world. It's not the quality of the product that
counts ... it's the number of checkmarks you have!
Received on Mon Jan 06 2003 - 11:21:30 CST
