Re: Oracle Forms vs Oracle Power Objects

Tanzel,

This Q. came up a few days ago - following is a repost of my reply at that time.
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The two tools are quite different, so that'd make a pretty long list. If you're asking this because you need to make a decision between them, one point stands out:
OPO is a Basic-scripted O-O tool.
Dev/2k is a PL/SQL-scripted tool.
Which language do you want to use client-side?

Beyond that, you can do forms & reports with either, and you'll find folks that like and dislike either.

OPO's flavor is more workgroup-level, and Dev/2k's is more enterprise-level, but I'm not aware of any barriers. OPO is probably a better choice for disconnected apps (ie laptops), and Dev/2k will probably get better Web features sooner than OPO (although you can do Web apps with OPO now).
Dev/2k has CASE support, OPO's is coming. You can find more info on each at http://www.oracle.com/

-hope this helps.

Bob Hoskin

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|_ Robert Hoskin __ Heartland Software Corp __ http://www.heartlnd.com/ __
|~ Co-Author of "Mastering Oracle Power Objects" ~  O'Reilly & Assoc.     
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Tansel Ozkan <tansel_at_openix.com> wrote in article <336BBD4E.DB4_at_openix.com>...
> Hi to all,
>
> I am interested in building user interfaces using Oracle products. Can
> anyone make a comparison of these two tools? Are they used for exactly
> the same purposes, for example? I don't really have the experience to
> know the strong and weak points of each.
>
> Thanks..
>
> Tansel
>
Received on Sun May 04 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST