I though everything switched over to OO? Is Oracle still relational? Didn't Java kill PL/SQL? What is the status of SQL*Calc? :-) ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JayMiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:40 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Grid Control - opinions please Does Gartner ever praise anything userful? I remember how excited they were with Oracle's new object oriented features in v8 while completely ignoring partitioned tables.