Re: desperately looking for Oracle Forms 3.0

Henk Hultink wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Fyi: we had to make an update from Forms 3.0 to 4.5, and decided to begin
> from scratch (only using the old forms and some Oracle Case Repository
> stuff - the 3.0 forms were INP files, which are ASCII and can even be read
> and fairly well understood in an ASCII-Editor).
> Because you can never hope to use even the least part of GUI functionality
> when you convert 3.0 to ...?
> I'm not even sure if Forms 9i is able to load INP files, or that you have
> to take more steps, e.g. 3 --> 4.5 --> 6 --> 9i, but I for one wouldn't vote
> for that option.
>
> regards,
>
> Henk Hultink
>
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> H. Hultink
> Software Engineer
> Stoas, Division OBOI
> Wageningen, The Netherlands
> "Activating Knowledge"
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>
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>
> "claudine" <chorezky_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:bdd6c2be.0303102338.4a03160f_at_posting.google.com...
> > DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:<3E6D1408.356FD3FC_at_exesolutions.com>...
> > > Frank wrote:
> > >
> > > > DA Morgan wrote:
> > > > > claudine wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >>Hi folks,
> > > > >>
> > > > >>We are looking for a copy of SQL*Forms 3.0. On the Oracle Partner
> > > > >>website, only Forms 6i and 9i seem to be available... Any clue where
> > > > >>we can get/buy this ancient stuff?
> > > > >>
> > > > >>thanx
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Claudine
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps a museum.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you are going to ask fo rthe impossible ... at least specify the
> > > > > operating system. BTW: Do you still have the operating system?
> > > > >
> > > > > Seems to me the time could be better spent doing whatever needs to
> be
> > > > > done with a product that isn't neolithic.
> > > > >
> > > > > Daniel Morgan
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Daniel, consider the OP has a migration job to execute - well
> > > > overdue, agreed, but well, errhm a business opportunity.
> > > >
> > > > claudine, you could also try to get hold of the RDBMS distribution;
> > > > iirc, the CLient-Only install holds forms 3.0 for most, if not
> > > > all 7.x distributions.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Regards, Frank van Bortel
> > >
> > > I understand that. But there is no migration path except recoding from
> > > scratch.
> > >
> > > It would almost undoubtedly be faster to just gather current
> requirements
> > > and start all over again.
> > >
> > > Daniel Morgan
> >
> > As it is, we really have to do a migration job (Forms 3.0 to Forms
> > 9i)! Daniel, do you really think, that this would be too troublesome
> > and that it would cost as much time as to start from scratch?? Do you
> > have any experience in forms migration?
> > claudine

You made a good choice starting from scratch going to 4.5. Even with the conversion from 3.0 to 4.0 it made little sense to attempt a migration.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Mar 11 2003 - 17:27:40 CET