>I would not be so sure about that. The newest Sybase Adaptive Server
>Enterprise (ASE) has Java build in. Adaptive Server Anywhere (ASA) has
>had Java support for a while. AFAIK, Oracle has had Java support for a
>while too.
>
>It certainly won't complete replace Perl. But were I still be a DBA,
>I would be learning Java right now. (And that's not because of Java,
>if some other language was build in, I'd be learning that.)
A few other observations from the XML world.
Our Java and XML book is selling way way way beyond our expectations. I
have been told that Perl support for XML is middling at best although I
have no personal experience to support this claim. IBM has put a big stake
in the ground around Java and XML in their e-commerce efforts. A small
company that used Perl exclusively to convert document formats to XML for
electronic publishing threw in the towel and is now using Java.
Anyway more food for thought.
Madeline Schnapp
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