Re: Recent Press Release: Developer/2000 Release 1.2

dbmoore@netcom.com (Dennis Moore) wrote: >ORACLE ANNOUNCES NEW FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY FOR SECOND >GENERATION, CLIENT/SERVER DEVELOPERS [Press release follows...] Wow, at almost $4k per developer, this should be SOME HOT development tool. We're running PB against Oracle Rdb (NEVER thought I'd see myself write that! [Shudder!] Used to be DEC Rdb, and I used to work for DEC.] With the described native access to Rdb, this sounds on paper like a great product for use to use, rather than PowerBuilder. But we just moved to PB, and have overspent our budget getting there. It's about 8 months too late for us to switch (from formerly DEC RALLY, now Oracle RALLY, soon to be DOA?). >For more information about Oracle, please call (415) 506-7000. Oracle's World >Wide Web address is http://www.oracle.com/. >-- >-- Dennis Moore, Oracle Corp. >dbmoore@oracle.com <- Office (preferred for e-mail) >dbmoore@netcom.com <- Home (preferred for living ;-) Note that the person who posted it works for Oracle - no big surprise there! Not a slam, just to make it obvious to folks that might not have read the bottom of the press release. ------------------------------------------------------- Stew Stryker sstryker@sover.net "All opinions are my own, except where noted otherwise" -------------------------------------------------------