Re: Please help data management issues!!

In article <vaess8fhas6mcb_at_news.supernews.com>,  "Keith" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote:

> I am at the end of the rope with dealing with Oracle's obscene(my opinion)
> pricing. I cannot compete with using Oracle any longer. The salespeople are
> absolute slugs and greedy(my opinion). I have switched over to PostgreSql
> where possible on the Sql server side. It works very well. .Org domain
> lookups are hosted on PostgreSQL. My biggest problem is replacing the Oracle
> Developer 2K front end. Can anyone please suggest a replacement for this -
> something that comes close to providing such a functionality .. as in
> developing database forms applications. I am looking for GUI and Unix unix
> character-mode deployment. At this point I will entertainment anything. HTML
> is not an option.
>
> www.gnuenterprise.org comes very close but they are far from completion. It
> would be nice to provide them with some financial (and other) asssistance.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Open software. You were expecting parity with commercial applications? Geeze, what have you been smoking?

Lots of times there are similar applications like StarOffice to substitute for M$ Office. But a lot of man years (I'd say even decades) went into building Oracle Forms and their entire architecture. If you can't afford them, maybe you should shop for a replacement vendor like Sybase or Informix. If you _really_ can't afford anything but GPL software, try writing your own stuff to do what you want. Web-based stuff with PHP or Perl will give you the forms you want.

You've got to spend money to make money.

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