They can get away with it because their (Oracle) thin client driver sucks ;). The DataDirect version of the driver is far superior. It could be argued, however, that a company that can put the funds out for an "Enterprise" SQL server, it should be able to front funds for an "Enterprise" web application server. I'm not saying that's my opinion, merely what seems to be sentiment.
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