.Net is all about delivering a bunch of products in about two years time in order to allow people to go and build services. That's not what this is about at all. This is about delivering a bunch of services now in order to deliver services -- .Now. |
As the paradigm shifts from Windows to the Web, we will have the dominant server technology. (Microsoft) SQL Server is not Internet enabled. Oracle 8i is. |
As the Web becomes the most important way of computing, going forward, Windows will fall by the wayside. By the year 2002, there will be 2 billion devices connected to the Internet and only 10 percent of them will be running Windows. |
It's something that we would see typically in the springtime here. |
Oracle 8i is designed to be an Internet operating system. |
Our vision is this: In the future, companies won't buy computers. They'll buy connectivity to the Internet the way you go to the electric company to get electricity. |
We're really at the start of the Internet commerce curve. It's a market we think we will dominate as we go forward. As more people use the Web, more people will be driven to our database. |
You'll see people switching to different types of appliances. The average person doesn't need Microsoft Word for the type of word processing they do. |