FW: Oracle Goes Java-less -- Giant breaks promise to support key

Joe Barrera (joebar@MICROSOFT.com)
Sun, 22 Jun 1997 12:51:14 -0700


File under "The wise love their enemies and fear their friends"...

[...]

Java, the key ingredient in the software giant's networked computing
strategy, will not be included in the initial release of Oracle 8.
Moreover, Oracle's next-generation application development platform,
known as Sedona, will not ship with Oracle 8 and perhaps not at all,
company chairman Larry Ellison said in a stunning announcement here last
week.

[...]

"It was all Windows NT, all DCOM and not a whiff of CORBA. How can any
user take Oracle's advice on the NCA religion seriously if Oracle
doesn't practice it?" said Peter Burris, an analyst at the Meta Group, a
Stamford, Conn.-based consultancy.

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