Chapter 14: The Future

Chapter 14: The Future

Overview

Anyone working in the IT industry cannot say they have a profession where nothing new happens. We work in an industry where what is popular today is either even more popular in a few years, gone forever or remembered as one of those passing fads.

There was a time when COBOL programming was all the rage and no one had ever thought of writing a Web-based application, but that was yesterday. Today, there are some exciting new developments taking place that are changing the way we work and do business.

The Windows NT Operating System from Microsoft is one of those very interesting new areas. It is not often that an operating system captivates the industry, but NT has everyone looking at it. Many organizations are deploying some of their new systems on NT to see its suitability for production and critical applications. It is one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the industry, so anyone deploying NT systems is definitely moving in the popular, cutting-edge world.

To be successful, these applications need a good development environment and usually a database. The number of players in the database market has changed considerably in recent years, leaving only a few well known products to choose from.

The Oracle Corporation has taken its very popular and sophisticated database product and released it on NT. Hopefully, this book has illustrated how powerful this product is, offering an extremely comprehensive range of features to support your business.

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