Re: Is Oracle Forms worth sticking with anymore

From: dmz17 <dmz17_at_nospam.nowhere.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:27:16 +0100
Message-ID: <pan.2002.11.30.10.27.16.640595_at_nospam.nowhere.com>


On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 01:16:33 +0000, rolospy wrote:

> Are Oracle trying to get people onto JDeveloper rather than Oracle Forms
> nowadays.
>
> Is there a roadmap for Forms anymore. There must be thousands of companies
> with applications written using Forms yet I get the impression that it's old
> hat and Java is what Oracle is pushing now.

For new work I'd definitely go to Java. You don't REALLY want to be locked into a platform for which you even have to ASK the question you just asked, would you?

Oracle has excellent Java tools. The day you feel let down, let them go and continue your work using any other commodity Java platform.

Cheers,

dmz17 Received on Sat Nov 30 2002 - 11:27:16 CET

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