Re: Q: Developer/2000 for UNIX: is it easy to port a windows app to UNIX?

We have one person on our development staff who has a Unix workstation running Solaris and Developer/2000. To modify a form that was created in Developer/2000 in a windows95 environment all he does is FTP the FMB file (using binary mode in FTP) to his Unix workstation and opens the FMB. The only thing I can think of as being problems would be ICO files for iconized buttons and VBXs.

This may not help you, but the "Oracle Forms Advanced Techniques" manual Chapter 9 is "Designing for Portability".

In article <342B8271.A57E5204_at_BigFoot.com>, Peter.J.Ebbelink_at_BigFoot.com says...
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>Could anyone comment on this:
>If I have a typical application, developed using developer/2000 on
>Windows, what would be the effort involved in porting it to UNIX? Oracle
>sales says it's a snap. This is the same as what Sybase made me believe
>about their PowerBuilder product, but I know better now :-( I wouldn't
>like to make the same mistake twice
>(I know: What's typical? But I need to get some idea. Cross out OLE and
>DDE. Just some
>advanced queries on several tables, some average data manipulating and
>presentation of resultsets, tabular, graphs and crosstabs)
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>Response highly appreciated!
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>Peter Ebbelink
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Received on Thu Oct 09 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST