.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.
It's something that we would see typically in the springtime here.
Oracle 8i is designed to be an Internet operating system.
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.
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.
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.
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.
