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Sept. 2, 1997

It's official: Oracle has dropped Sedona

The story

From Internet Week via TechWire, 14 August 1997 (excerpted), It's Official: Oracle's Sedona Is Dead, by Shawn Willett:

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Sedona, Oracle's object-oriented development tool, is officially dead. According to sources, Sohaib Abbasi, senior vice president at Oracle, officially killed the product last week at a meeting with marketing and sales executives.
Sedona had been put on hold by chief executive Larry Ellison in June. At that time, Ellison said the product did not have the support of people within Oracle, including the applications group. Also, he said that Sedona competed in some instances with Oracle's mainline application development tool, Developer/2000.
Oracle plans to put some of the middleware and the repository into Developer/2000 and other products. It also will rely on third-party products to deliver some of the functionality of Sedona.
In Sedona's absence, Oracle needs to come up with a better tool for building three-tier applications, said analysts.

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Our comment

Once again, a multi-million dollar O-O development tool project is shelved. The story of Taligent (the joint venture between some of the industry's giants, announced with great fanfare as leading to the C++ environment of the future, then dropped after reaching an impasse) comes to mind.

A great O-O development environment takes more than dollars and wishful thinking. It requires a consistent and powerful conceptual basis; the Eiffel method provides such a basis for all of ISE's tools, used successfully in a variety of industry settings for the most demanding developments.

Reference

TechWire, 14 August 1997. For the full story -- including a fascinating series of earlier press releases, describing the successive steps in the demise of the product and the company's presentation of it -- run a query on "Sedona" at http://www.techweb.com. See http://www.techweb.com.

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