Re: Front end recommendations Please!

JAM ???? [Quoted] Are you using this in a DOS/WINDOWS/Netware environment or in a UNIX shop?

We are in the DOS/WINDOWS/Netware environment and have had some Horrible problems and it has taken Tech support weeks to come up with answers

not trying to slam anything ... just curious

Mark McNulty wrote:
>
> In article <32B70519.213C_at_mindspring.com>,
> Bill Kincaid <wkincaid_at_mindspring.com> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm about to start a new developement project with Oracle on Netware V4
> >and would like for someone to suggest a good front end for this project.
> >I've heard others suggest Powerbuilder, Delphi and C++ and Oracle's own.
> >If it makes sense to stay with Oracle on the front I would certainly be
> >willing. However, if anyone can suggest reasons for another tool, I
> >would appreciate it.
> >
> >My project is fairly straight forward. There will be a total of about 45
> >users. I will have only about 10 data entry operators and 35 telesurvey
> >operators. During the course of the workday not much in the way of
> >reporting is ocurring. Everything occurs on one file server in one
> >building and growth is expected to be slow after system inception.
> >
> >Please advise as I am new to Oracle and am interested in a solid app.
> >
> >Thanks in advance!
> >
> >Bill Kincaid
> >
> >wkincaid_at_mindspring.com
>
> Ok, I'll suggest, with some bias, JAM or Prolifics (JAM 3-tier).
> (www.prolifics.com).
>
> Also look at Forte, Uniface, etc. or some web-only tools, like
> Netdynamics or Latte. If it doesn't do too much database work,
> you might even want to look at VB or Access. It really just
> depends on what your needs are (for instance, how many records
> are being entered, what kind of response time and security do you
> need, etc). If you are going to use Oracle's tools, you might find
> that Developer 2000 is a little more robust than Power Objects.
>
> JAM would allow you to create an application that can be run on just
> about any platform, so your 10 data entry operators could enter data
> on Windows 3.1 or a Mac and your 35 telesurvey operators could run the
> same screens over the Web. There is a version of JAM for Netware as
> well. JAM has native database drivers for Oracle (Pro*C or OCI), as
> well as Sybase, Informix, etc.
>
> Then, even if the system doesn't grow, but your boss decides he wants
> to move to Informix or Sybase or run off of the Mac or the Web or
> VMS, you can give him want he wants. If the Network Computer takes
> off in a couple of months, you can give him another version.
>
> If the system does grow, you can scale up with Prolifics into a real
> three-tier system, where peices of your application can live on other
> machines, and can talk to each other with a scaled down version of
> Tuxedo that is built into Prolifics, or with Tuxedo itself.
Received on Tue Dec 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CET