Re: Question about "Oracle Business Objects"

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:03:19 GMT, Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote:

>Ryan wrote:
>> Been looking around on the job boards and I have seen this posted more and
>> more often as a requirement. Is this part of an Oracle tool? Or are business
>> objects a design concept?
>>
>> Which document on OTN explains this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>There are a couple of flavors of BusinessObjects that I know of ... and
>probably more that I don't know. I once worked with one of them (see
>http://www.businessobjects.com) where we created "universes" for
>end-user ad hoc queries (hopefully the product has improved its
>performance since then). There is also Borland BusinessObjects. Both can
>interface to Oracle.
>

A couple of points
Yes the name is a design concept - see also Distributed objects, Object Brokers and Object components - I found The Client/Server Survival Guide a good overview of this, it explains a lot of the jargon...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471316156/

In a Job ad it's just as likely to refer to BusinessObjects SA which is both the name of a company and their biggest selling product line (formerly Skipper SQL)

As for it having 'bad performance' well it's an ad hoc tool, compared to a carefully written report, all end user ad hoc tools have bad performance. I'm not aware of anything that would make it worse than SQL*Plus or MS Access.

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Simon Sheppard
http://www.ss64.com
- Received on Wed Dec 18 2002 - 14:37:05 CST