Oracle Names was removed because they discovered a new revenue stream in dragging those of us who wanted that functionality into OID and the wonderful Application Server world Rick Weiss Oracle Database Administrator Montana Department of Labor & Industry Centralized Services Division Technical Services Bureau 1327 Lockey P.O. Box 1728 Helena, Montana 59624-1728 (406) 444-9628 rweiss@xxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirtikumar Deshpande Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:00 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: HTML DB - here to stay? ...and the other product that comes to my mind is Oracle Names. It had its share of trouble in the early versions, but once it stabilized, it was discontinued... We have both: Oracle Names and Designer... very heavily used.. :( - Kirti --- ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Oracle has a track record of saying this is the direction we are going > and then changing their mind. If you go to the ODTUG listservs and ask > about this they will point out their history with Oracle Designer. > Oracle convinced alot of people to spend alot of time(years in many > cases) to become very proficient with designer. Many people designed > full development processes around it. Oracle has ceased adding new > features to it. Doesn't even cover hash partitions. Its still a good tool, but its clearly slowly fading away. > Wasn't there some web based technology oracle was talking about in > 2000-2001, that just dissappeared? __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l