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Thanks for the Heads Up

Microsoft recently hired an Eclipse fellow that use to work at IBM. The article indicates that Microsoft is following IBM's lead emulating IBM's Rational Application Developer (new version 7 now available). IBM's product works great with Oracle though it has a lot of hooks of course for DB2. I am hoping Version 7 implements EJB's better, perhaps Ejb3. Supposedly the Visual Java is much improved. Anyway Microsoft is doing the industry good by attempting to leap from IBM's RAD. But they are so far behind.

Be aware that Oracle has decided to port its tool set to eclipse. The first port is likely to involve Oracle SQLdeveloper which is available free of charge in a Windows and all other OS flavor. The SQLdeveloper tool comes with native support for Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. Oracle and Microsoft have been working together recently because of the recognition that many of their customers have both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Oracle owns the engine for MySQL so it was natural to include that. I suspect that any database with a jdbc driver can also be supported by the tool. But clearly this is the killer application we have been looking for in Oracle database work.

Frank L. Mighetto CCP

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