Re: Oracle+NeXT: Let's leave Apple out of this! (Was: How he's gonna do it)

In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.951117191319.7608B-100000_at_sable.ox.ac.uk>, Ravi Mendis <lady0098_at_sable.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Edward Jung wrote:
> >
> > It makes much more sense for Ellison to leverage the value of ALL of
> > Oracle's market valuation (plus their cash) to try to buy Apple
> > Computer. Then if he wanted to, he could try to get the board to turn
> > the reigns over to Jobs (or merge with NeXT or whatever). But I think
> > that would be insane.
>
> What would be insane?! Job's back at Apple's helm: Possibly. Or a
> NeXT-Oracle merger?
>
> NeXT has far more potential of creating synergy with Oracle than Apple.
> (Personally, i have to say Oracle seems to be straying from its strong
> RDBMS roots. Diving into the Hardware business is no easy task...even
> Oracle may feel the bite)
>
> Let's see what the Oracle-NeXT offspring would be like, Hmmm??
> 1. Oracle Object Repository
> I am surprised that Oracle isn't ecstatic about being able to store
> Objects on its RDBMS: Oracle's RDBMS integrated with PDO/EOF would
> effectively be an Oracle Object Repository. (Soon with CORBA and OLE
> compatibility.)
>
> 2. Oracle Web Store
> Oracle (Object Repository + Web Server) + NeXT WebObjects = Oracle Web Store.
> Even more exiting perhaps is the storage of "entities" pertaining to
> dynamic web pages on an Oracle RDBMS storage system.
>
> 3. Oracle Object Developer
> = Oracle Developer/2000 + NeXT OPENSTEP Developer Tools.
> NeXT's successful tools product suit must also have been a factor in the
> $8 million mega-buck deal between NeXT and Merill-Lynch.
>
>
> 4. NeXT Enterprise Desktop (client)
> OPENSTEP + EOF + Personal Oracle = NeXT Enterprise Desktop (client).
> Again i'm surprised that it's taking NeXT awhile to advocate its EOF
> "real" objects on its own system: NEXTSTEP. (e.g: a PDO/EOF "clock"
> object - probably residing on the "Department server", would be remotely
> accessed over the network from the NeXT Enterprise Desktop
> application more familiarly known as Preferences. Similarly, say the
> PrintManger application would merely be a "shell" onto the various
> [printer] objects living at different nodes on the network) This would make
> NEXTSTEP (5.0?) an environment essentially incarnate on the network,
> rather than the desktop.
>
> 5. NeXT Enterprise Desktop (server)
> The EOF object classes: [clock],..[user], [enterprise], [dept.],
> ..[printer], [machine],..[mailbox], [wastebasket], [workspace],
> ..[document], etc,..which would be instantiated and deployed at
> install-time. The Enterprise Desktop Objects would be persisting at
> different levels, distributed around the enterprise.
> (Of course, there needs to be some method (by way of
> applications?) to allocate/compile/deploy the persistant PDO/EOF objects?
> The task of handling the security and the integrity of both the network and
> the objects might be a formidable management/admin task?)
>
>
>
>
> So there. Talk about insanity...
>
> Now if we were to add Apple to that equation?!?!?!
>
>
>
> ravi

We would have someone that new how to market! :)

Robert Received on Tue Nov 21 1995 - 00:00:00 CET