Re: Plea to Oracle!

Hail, brother! I agree with you on the "artificial" need for GUI apps. IMHO, GUI apps are good for end-users (but only if they're browser-based :=) !), but tech weenies like us should know and use the command-line to do our work. It's easier to do it remotely that way.

Regards,

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David C. Sisk
The Unofficial ORACLE on NT site
http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm

Renney Thomas wrote in message <7n0l29$1tm_at_journal.concentric.net>...
>This is a plea to Oracle Forms and Reports managers.
>
>Please do not remove support for character-mode in Forms and Reports!!!
>
>I don't know what assanine force pushes Oracle to do some really stupid
>things that cater
>to the hoi poloi of today's IT community. There is no academic basis for
>some of the design changes in it's products. People want graphics and
>windows everywhere not realizing that GUI is a means to an end not an end
in
>itself. Everything in this world does not need to be in a bloody window to
>be useful!!! They changed the oracle installer on SUN to be all GUI.
>Now I have to load MOTIF and graphics cards on a headless SUN Sparcs to
>install Oracle! They used to have a character-mode installer up to 8.0.5!!
>
>Character-mode requires very little in terms of resource usage. You can use
>a simple 386 with a kermit term emulator to connect to Forms applications.
>Also you can deploy one instance of the form file on a central UNIX server
>and have it accesed by the rest of the user base. If you make one stupid
>change to a boiler plate text item, you only make the change to one file
and
>not have to distribute it to 150 PCs. It saves a lot of time and hassle.
>Granted not all apps are suitable for character-mode, many still only
>require character-mode.
>
>Also one only requires minimal bandwidth for remote connectivity. A modem
>and terminal
>will suffice! IBM mainframes ran and still run some of the biggest db apps
>in character-mode
>employing a centrally and professionally managed paradigm. This recent
>concept of federation and distribution of processing through client-server
>using MickeySoft and PEECEEs have really created more maintenance
>headaches.... (eg ODBC)
>
>Also many people in the US, Europe and Australia still use character-mode.
>Who wants to have to upgrade ever bloody PEECEE with new versions of Oracle
>Client and Forms and run around like some IT weenie annointing every
office
>worker's feet with perfume and holy water and have to listen to their petty
>life stories. :-)
>
>Character-mode is important!
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 20 1999 - 21:37:45 CDT