Re: .net and oracle's (10G) object relational features ?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:14:16 -0800
Message-ID: <1109970670.638657@yasure>

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1109953991.126024_at_yasure...
>

>>It should come as no surprise to anyone that at Oracle Corp. they
>>are currently working on both versions 11 and 12 of the database.
>>But no one is going to walk away from the product because we all
>>know what they do will be very compatible with earlier versions
>>and there will be a very easy upgrade/migration path.
>>
>>So why would anyone doubt that at Microsoft they are also working
>>on the next version? That shouldn't be controversial. The question
>>is more one of backward compatibility and that is the one place
>>where Microsoft has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to make
>>its licensees recode and incur a huge cost of upgrading.

>
>
> That isn't exactly what you said though. You said that we should look at
> PHP5 and other products because .net is dying. Now you seem to be talking
> about a version upgrade to something, you haven't yet said what. Later this
> year 'the replacement for .net' will be announced. Just to be clear are you
> saying that folk in the halls at the University who work for Microsoft are
> saying semi-publicly that .net is going to be replaced this year? If not
> what did you mean exactly?
>
> btw, you can still code against com, com+ and dcom in .net. No doubt this is
> similar to the way you can carry on your old forms 3 and designer code to
> jdev and 9iAS?

Well you can't very well look at the next unreleased version of .NET's successor product can you? So PHP5 is one alternative to starting a project with a technology that will likely require recoding sooner rather than later. And my experience with PHP so far has been a far better regard for developer's time and manager's budgets.

Of course you can still code against COM or even run DOS if you wish. Heck as anyone that knows me can tell you I still run Xtree Gold which is circa 1980's software under XP Pro. But then I'm not starting a new project with it.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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