On Monday 10 January 2005 1:08 pm, Scott Harney spake: > Tim Fournet wrote: > > Are you saying that everyone that works for Oracle is a developer? They > > down employee any sales, accounting, support, or administrative people? > > So many of Oracle's apps are web-based and/or Java-based so as long as they > run in Mozilla/Firefox and Java-1.4, the O.S. matters little. The only > question is if StarOffice, OpenOffice, etc. meet the needs of their desktop > users.
This brings up an interesting point... just about any application that has a database backend can either be ported to a free database, or connected to with free scripting languages (PHP springs to mind here). As noted elsewhere, many companies run custom-coded VB apps, so the idea of porting or accessing a database with scripted front-ends is certainly doable. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
