
It’s NT, Ellison said, because we’re telling developers don’t develop on NT and deliver your applications on a Dell box, develop on 8i and deliver them over the web. He said that Oracle’s key competitors weren’t the traditional database vendors anymore, such as Sybase, PeopleSoft, or even Microsoft’s own SQL or IBM’s DB2.

Windows is no longer the most economical way to deliver software…the internet is. He said that Microsoft’s most important asset is its developers. The guide demonstrates how to install and. Speaking yesterday in New York during a press conference about its Business OnLine ASP service, the company’s chairman and CEO Larry Ellison made a play for developers to move to Oracle. Walks through the process of transforming a Windows NT or 2000 server into an Oracle 8i or 9i database server. According to sources close to the software giant, Oracle will announce new technology and additions to existing tools to make it easier for developers to write applications to 8i.

Oracle Corp will use the first day of the Internet World show in New York today (Wednesday) to attempt to lure developers off Microsoft Corp’s NT server and onto its 8i database platform.
