Re: Forms 9/10 Without Application Server?

On 22 Nov 2004 02:58:36 -0800, rmay_at_museumoflondon.org.uk (Rich May) wrote:

>Hi all, hope somebody can help me.
>
>We're looking to finally make a long overdue upgrade. At present
>we're still using Developer/2000 - Forms 4.5 in a client/server
>environment and now want to drag ourseleves into the 21st century.
>
>However as I understand it in order to use Forms 9i or 10g we also
>need to run Application Server.
>
>We've been paying Oracle lots of money over the years for support on
>our database and developer licenses but now find that in order to
>actually use the software we have to pay an extra £10,000 for AS. As
>a charity this is simply not going to happen. Is there therefore any
>way to run Forms 9i or 10g forms with AS?
>
>For the record we have one dedicated Oracle server (running 9.2.0.5.0)
>that we'll be using to do everything. Is it possible to use any of
>the basic web server tools that come with the database to run the
>forms?
>
>Any help much appreciated.
>
>Cheers
>
>Richard May
>Network Manager
>Museum of London Group

I don't remember the exact name of the Oracle product (it is somewhere in the AS productline), but it enables you to run forms with Apache as a broker.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA