Java and NC

Some very exiting developments are under way in Norway that may show us where we should also go for future developments. A way that Informix has also selected to support heavily by the way: This week one of the major insurance companies in Norway stoped a US$ 2.6 million dollar project to develop new systems based on MS Windows NT. They are now evaluating going the NC/Java route instead. They now have 4.500 PC's and terminals which they want to replace with NCs as fast as possible to run Java and other intranet based applications. They are now in a test and evaluation periode that will last a few month until they decide finaly whether they should go this route. Microsoft Norway is a little shaky. This may not seem like a very large contract, but there beeing only about 4 million people in Norway this is a realy major development. This company is one of the largest IT users in Norway. If this insurance company can do it most others can as well. Several other large coorporations in Norway are currently doing exactly the same evaluation and many will have decided within the next half year. It will be extremely interesting to see what they will do. It may be the start of a realy major wave into a new future of computing. It's also interesting to know about Norway that such technology shifts have allways happened here at a very early stage. Allways before the rest of Europe, and sometimes even before the US. Are similar things happening in other parts of the world? Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org