Re: Strategy for Web based Oracle application

"Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message news:1a75df45.0402020013.41276881_at_posting.google.com...
> Rick, you have just highligted (like so many others) one of the
> numerous problems when dealing with web applications. Nothing
> personal.. so stand just a tad to that side while I swing my lead pipe
> violenty in the air and foam at the mouth.
>
> Business needs and requirements must drive technology.
>
> Instead, we have technology attempting to drive business needs. Who
> needs a real solution when web buzzwords can be thrown around as "the
> solution"?
>
> Fact. HTML, HTTP and web browsers were *NEVER* designed for being
> application front-ends.
>
> Hell... a web browser is called a web BROWSER.. and still people
> insist on silly idea in trying to make it an application front-end?
> Trying to handle complex GUI interaction with the user? Using menu and
> function driven options? Within the limits and restrictions and
> real-estate space of a stateless browser?
>
> In the time it takes a team of 10 developers to put together a web
> application, configure the web server, deal with its 3 to 4 tier
> complexity and what not... I would have written that complete
> application in less than half the time using something like Delphi.
> Using all the SAME thin-client techniques that makes a thin-client
> architecture desirable. (this is not an idle boast either)
>
> This reminds me all too much of the Emporer and his clothes... when
> will people start to admit that web applications are a misrable
> failure ito ease-of-development, lowering cost, flexibility,
> maintenance, performance, scalability, giving the users what *THEY*
> want...?
>
> THE EMPORER IS FRIGGEN NAKED!!!
>
> --
> Billy

Here here, I'll drink to that. So often I've been in meetings and heard that we MUST go to the next version of venfor application BECAUSE it is web based.
Jim Received on Mon Feb 02 2004 - 09:08:14 CST