Re: Oracle on Macintosh or PC for development?

In article br6_at_apakabar.cc.columbia.edu, roffman_at_bonjour.cc.columbia.edu (Steven Roffman) writes:
>I want to learn Oracle7 and tools (reports2 and forms 4). I prefer
>
>the Macintosh over windows (my only options) so I plan to
>1. Get more RAM for my MAC Q610 (total 24 MEG),
>2. run AUX
>3. purchase Oracle 7 and the above tools for AUX
>4. develop a small application
>5. port it to a pc-windows environment and run it on a PC based Novell Network
> running Oracle 7.
>
>
>Does this seem reasonable. Any better ideas? I have a PC & MAC
>in my office (the PC is a 386 25 Mhz w.4 meg RAm, so I'd have to upgrade it)
>I still will need a single user Oracle since I can't connect to my company's
>Oracle server for 2 months.
>
>Any advice will be appreciated.

In the last version of Forms it wasn't possible to develop on the Mac. You had to create the .inp file on another platform, transfer it to the Mac and then compile there. The whole Mac interface was a pretty featureless affair and looked like a very poor afterthought.

I don't think that the Forms4 equivalent has been released for the Mac yet, although I think it is in beta test. Perhaps someone could add some more information on that front (e.g. will it enable development, will it incorporate Menus etc).

Regards,
David TvE

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