Re: Database for gnome

[Urmane Hendrake <urmane urmane org>]

> Of course, Oracle 8 is supposed to be using CORBA in their API.  However,
> at the two conferences I went to in the last few months, they were
> pushing sqlnet hard.  Its confusing to talk to ANYONE at Oracle.

I just started reading the description of Oracle's Web Application Server/
WebServer/whatever (not sure where one product ends and another
begins), and Oracle has apparently implemented their own ORB, a number
of CORBA services - Log, Transaction, Authentication - their own
protocol called Media Net, built on top of UDP, etc.  One is, supposedly,
able to make application Cartridges that plug into ... well, somewhere,
I'm sure.  The dox are slightly difficult to wrap my brain around.

The idea is, apparently, to be able to do all kinds of Corba stuff through
your web browser.  I'm still reading.

jim


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                                                               Urmane Hendrake
"Apology accepted, Captain Piett."                             aka Jim Niemira
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