Re: What tool for The Hamburger Stand solution?

You raise an interesting question.
Given that web forms still has it problems, I would suggest that you build in Forms and deploy using Citrix Winframe. It is a stable, mature environment.

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Bill wrote in message <7us07k$jdt$1_at_nntp5.atl.mindspring.net>...
>Larry Ellison often uses the "hamburger stand" as an example of how not to
>devise a database solution. I think the example refers to Burger King
>installing a Windows NT server and MS-SQL in to each store, rather than
>using a more connected solution based on Oracle. I was curious which of
>the Oracle tools would be best for building a distributed application that
>would serve the "burger stand" example.
>
>I like the idea of "thin-client" computing where the application comes down
>the "pipe" as either HTML or Java, with the whole thing being powered by an
>Oracle database and application-servers. Oracle has several tools
available
>for doing this, but I was curious which were the right ones.
>
>For example, does Larry think the burger-stands should be running Netscape
>and using an HTML-based thin-client solution running off a website and
>remote 8i database? Or a HTML-based thin-clients being driven by an
>application server? Or Java programs accessing a remote 8i database? Or a
>Developer2000 application running on Windows NT?
>
>I was going to develop an application similar to the "burger stand"
example,
>and had planned on doing it as a client-server project with VB6 or Delphi5.
>Multi-location installations would benefit from a centralized database, so
I
>am now exploring Oracle's tools. Being able to drive several sites off of
>one database and perhaps local app-servers would work, or better yet - have
>local databases that automatically stayed in sync with eachother (or a
>central server). I'd like customers sites to be able to function
>independently in case of down lines, but otherwise stay in sync to be able
>to answer Larry's "How many burgers did I sell today question?".
>
>Any suggestions? I'm a newby to Oracle's tools, but Larry seems to have
>embraced a model that I agree with.
>
>- Bill
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Received on Sat Oct 23 1999 - 15:58:54 CDT