We are debating on whether POWERBUILDER or FORMS v4.5 (DEVELOPER 2000)
would fit our needs better as a frontend application developing tool
in a Windows environment on client workstations to our ORACLE server.
We are presently running ORACLE on OS NOVELL on a 486 60Mhz PC Server,
but possibly in the future could move to a UNIX box. We will be
developing 2 or more applications in 1996 and have 2 - 3 developers.
We presently have DEVELOPER 2000 with FORMS but have not done any
developing with it. We would need to purchase POWERBUILDER.
One of my associates seems to believe that POWERBUILDER is a better
product (His reasons - its been around for a long time - has a good
reputation - POWERBUILDER is compatible to many other tools).
He seems to have convinced my boss to go with POWERBUILDER.
Training and coming up to speed is also a issue. We have no
experience on either, so would need training on both ( although
I am familiar with ORACLE and SQL). We both are completely new to
POWERBUILDER so would need to be trained in it..
I would appreciate your opnion (especially if you have developed
applications with both FORMS and POWERBUILDER or have gathered
comparison facts between them). I realize this list might be
somewhat biased for ORACLE FORMS. In your reply, please
attempt to give good reasons based on your experience or facts you
know.
THANK YOUAllen G. Wells (612)627-5492 FAX: (612)627-5479
MN Dept of Health, Enviromental Health Division
Internet: Allen.Wells_at_health.state.mn.us
