Re: Odd question

"Mark C. Stock" <mcstockX_at_Xenquery .com> wrote in message news:asOdnQJhEOtlJjPZnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d_at_comcast.com...
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> "Frank van Bortel" <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e8mcbv$tgf$2_at_news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
> : sybrandb schreef:
> : > sigdock wrote:
> : >> sybrandb wrote:
> : >> Just for fun.... I've got Oracle 4 already working... :-)))
> : >>
> : You cheat - it's a downloadable VMware image.
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> : >> Really? Forms 2.0 can work with Oracle10g ???
> : >>
> : >>> --
> : >>> Sybrand Bakker
> : >>> Senior Oracle DBA
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> : >
> : > Geez, Forms 2.0 wasn't application, that was a nightmare. Even Forms
> : > 2.3 was still a nightmare.
> : >
> : >
> : As was 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 and 9i Release 1.
> : 2.4 was reasonable, as was 4.5
> :
> : --
> : Regards,
> : Frank van Bortel
> :
> : Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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> 4.5?!?!?!???!?!??!????!??!?!?!
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> Wasn't that their first attempt at a GUMMY -- er, I mean GUI? IIRC, that's
> that one that caused me to actually use MS-Access for a front end.

Nope. The first GUI -attempt was 4.0, 1994 as I recall. Came with Designer (which was then called CDE, completely written in Forms 4.0 as well)

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> 3.0 was actually my favorite as far as productivity (INP files and
> spread-tables in the designer), 5.0+ became reasonable but the switch to
> property-sheet was a real pain
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> ++ mcs
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> ++ mcs
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Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 15:08:02 CDT