Au contraire, my dear chap. When your managers start throwing around fancy buzzwords like .NET, J2EE, XML, send them here: http://www.microfocus.com/products/netexpress/ Micro Focus Net Express® is the market-leading COBOL development environment for extending core business processes to the .NET Framework and other distributed platforms. Powerful integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET Framework plus direct COBOL Web services capabilities, J2EE connectivity and XML support allow easy integration of existing and new COBOL applications with leading enterprise technologies. Micro Focus Net Express® provides a complete environment for quickly building and modernizing COBOL enterprise components and business applications. ________________________________ De : oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Bobak, Mark Envoyé : mercredi, 20. décembre 2006 10:46 À : jkstill@xxxxxxxxx; Leng.Kaing@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc : oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : RE: pl/sql to be desupported in favour of java? You mean COBOL isn't dead? ;-) -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which shouldn't be done at all. -Peter F. Drucker, 1909-2005 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 1:42 PM To: Leng.Kaing@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: pl/sql to be desupported in favour of java? On 12/14/06, Leng Kaing <Leng.Kaing@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Someone has just brought this up to my attention and I thought "What? Why haven't I heard of this?" Has anyone heard of this rumor? What version of Oracle are we talking about? 11g? The way I heard it, PL/SQL will go away soon after COBOL does. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist