>I think you'll find that Ellison's "vision" of network computing was literally acquired when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. That’s incorrect. Acquisition of

>I think you'll find that Ellison's "vision" of network computing was literally acquired when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. That’s incorrect. Acquisition of Sun cane much later. “Network is the computer” is very different from Ellison’s Network Computing because in Ellison’s vision complexity is centralized and end-user devices are glorified dumb terminals which is very different from Sun’s “Network is the computer”