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>It seems to me that IS managers in the U.S. wants prestige rather than functionality. In our country, it doesn't matter what platform you've used as long as it works the way they expect it to be specifically on the output being generated by the system. After all, thats the bottom line: OUTPUT.
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Ship some of those managers over here - very rare for managers in usa corps
to make their own decisions.

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>>So now: ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, ADO, SQL Server 7.0.
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>The above products you mentioned are not tools capable of doing full blown business applications. You should have VB or Delphi or PB added in your arsenal.
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NOT TRUE! I am working on a very large Intranet for a major telecom company
in Plano Texas. Stored procedures within SQL Server 7.0 can do some
amazing table manipulations. And ADO can be used to access multiple
recordsets produced by a single sproc. You are wrong! This is a very large,
very important, "full blown business application".


>>Soon: Java.
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>With the promises of Visual Studio 7, you can do even better business applications than Java. It is painful to do full blown app with Java as for the current version. The only advantage that I knew of with Java for now is its cross-platform capabilities and internet features.

Again, the demand drives all. Even if the demand is wrong.