Re: a show of hands please, how many people use Oracle Forms for real apps?

I do agree with you. But you see what a great tool is Forms 6i, as it allows you to *choose* what plataform you want to deploy? With it you can develop a wide range of applications.

I'll continue with forms 9i, but the range of applications will drop by half. I'll use it for web applications, and Powerbuilder for client/server apps.

"Daniel A. Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3C651CB0.9D828837_at_exesolutions.com>...
> ... obviously. But I haven't meet a client wanting to deploy anything client-server in several years now. Some may
> ... but only because they haven't got the web infrastructure in place.
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> Daniel Morgan
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> Luis Cabral wrote:
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> > Hi
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> > Today Oracle Developer (Forms & Reports) are widely used, with very good
> > results in terms of productivity and client satisfaction - at least this is
> > my personal experience, and I work with Forms for 8 years.
> >
> > But as the new Forms version - 9i - will lack the support of client/server
> > deployment, I think its use will drop a lot, at least for them that need run
> > their applications on that platform.
> >
> > Luis Cabral
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> > "Scott Mattes" <ScottMattes_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<sr098.316$QQ3.109311_at_news1.news.adelphia.net>...
> > > I am having one of those 'I can't believe this tool" days and again am
> > > wondering if people really get anything productive done with it.
> > >
> > > Today's misadventure: on my system if I do a hide_view, the next time I do
> > > a show_view the canvas and the prompts appear, but none of the data. I can
> > > see the data during debug, but it doesn't show on the screen.
> > >
> > > My version information:
> > >
> > > Forms [32 Bit] Version 6.0.8.12.1 (Production)
> > > Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> > > With the Partitioning option
> > > JServer Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production
> > > Oracle Toolkit Version 6.0.8.12.1 (Production)
> > > PL/SQL Version 8.0.6.0.0 (Production)
> > > Oracle Procedure Builder V6.0.8.12.1 Build #520 - Production
> > > PL/SQL Editor (c) WinMain Software (www.winmain.com), v1.0 (Production)
> > > Oracle Query Builder 6.0.7.0.0 - Production
> > > Oracle Virtual Graphics System Version 6.0.5.36.0 (Production)
> > > Oracle Tools GUI Utilities Version 6.0.5.35.0 (Production)
> > > Oracle Multimedia Version 6.0.5.34.0 (Production)
> > > Oracle Tools Integration Version 6.0.8.10.2 (Production)
> > > Oracle Tools Common Area Version 6.0.5.32.1
> > > Oracle CORE Version 4.0.6.0.0 - Production
Received on Tue Feb 12 2002 - 17:17:53 CET