Re: PowerBuilder v. Oracle Developer

>From my initial explorations of Oracle Tools it seems that Oracle is a
>superior development platform for relatively simple high transaction volume
>applications and DSS/OLAP applications. PowerBuilder may be a superior
>development platform for complex business transactions where an extreme
>degree of program control is needed to achieve transaction accuracy and
>speed. I hope this is not true, what is your opinion?
>

Having been an Oracle Developer, then PB, then back to Oracle, both have their advantages and disadvantages, but I am glad to be back w/Oracle tools. The biggest advantage PB has over Oracle is in its better handling of Windows and screen presentation. Speed at the interface level is usually controlled by by the hardware and how well the application is designed (and how fast/accurately a PERSON types). Both Oracle and PB can be well designed or poorly designed.

Transaction control is really handled by the database, assuming locks are placed appropriately by the front end..just as long as the front-end knows that the transaction was successful.

It was my experience with (an old version by now) PB was that with a good class library, it was good. If you had to write all the stuff for db access/control and objects, it would have been practically impossible for a newbie PB to write anything. With Developer, all that is handled behind the scenes automatically.

just my 2cent worth ...

Dan Hekimian-Williams Received on Sat Oct 16 1999 - 05:10:22 CEST