Re: Oracle 9iAS: Forms compatibility between NT and Unix

From: Jeff Traigle <traigle_at_si.umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 00:44:10 GMT
Message-ID: <B90DBF18.1471D%traigle@si.umich.edu>

Ok. I'll forgive you the misunderstanding *this* time. :)

I don't really see what their having their print routines (which, at this point in time, consist entirely of downloading a PDF file to the client and the user manually printing via the client's mechanisms) has anything to do with them releasing the application on a Windows 9iAS platform exclusively. If there really is such minor compilation issues to deal with on the UNIX port (and, if they have a brain about coding, they would have a standard consistent way of naming things to address this in the code in the first place), then the customer should be able to decide which platform makes the most sense for their servers instead of the vendor forcing a relatively arbitrary choice. Actually, I would think implementing our requirement for the one work order entry screen to print directly from the server to the printer instead of the user having to manually do so from the client side would be easier done on a UNIX platform since it would presumably be a simple system call sending the file to some command line rather than who knows what kind of things would need doing on a Windows server to accomplish the same thing.

I guess I'll be talking to him again about this and possibly having my boss get some additional negotiating done with the company, if need be. From what folks have been saying here, it really shouldn't be that big of a deal for them and worth it to us to push for a UNIX release to avoid the expense of implementing more Windows servers in our shop.

On 5/19/02 3:59 PM, in article tRuL1eF8QA68Ewda_at_ahardy.demon.co.uk, "Andy Hardy" <newsnov01_at_ahardy.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In message <B90B0178.13F49%traigle_at_si.umich.edu> , Jeff Traigle
> <traigle_at_si.umich.edu> writes

>> No, no, no. You misunderstood. He said the forms must be compiled for each
>> platform they attempt to support the application on the 9iAS server side.
>> The client side is definitely not a problem. I'm trying to determine if it
>> is really all that much a problem for them to compile the forms on the UNIX
>> server that they already have developed and are releasing on the NT/2000
>> server platform.
>> 

>
> Ah, my apologies then!
>
> OK, re-compiling is relatively painless - with a few minor problems such
> as remembering that UNIX is a case-sensitive file system, etc.
>
> I suspect that if they are relying on Windows for their print routines,
> that this is the real reason that they don't want to support 9iAS on a
> UNIX platform.
>
> Andy

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Received on Sun May 19 2002 - 19:44:10 CDT