Re: Oracle on Macintosh or PC for development?

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Forms 4, Reports 2, Graphics 2, Plus 3.1, Book 1, Browser 1, Pro*C, and Card 1 are all available TODAY (Note: IN THE USA. For your local country availability, check with your local office) in production and shipping for MacOS/Finder. The same products, plus Glue, are shipping today for Windows. The Windows version supports Win-OS/2 and WoW (16-bit on NT). Versions of most of these products are available on a wide variety of Unix and DEC (OpenVMS, VAX VMS) platforms as well, under Motif 1.2 and character mode. These tools are incidentally known collectively as the Cooperative Development Environment (CDE) 4GL's and end-user tools.

On all bit-mapped platforms, this is the FULL USE VERSION (i.e. the version for programmers) as well as the lower-priced DEPLOYMENT USE VERSION (i.e. the "runtime" for users to run the applications created with the FULL USE VERSION). If you have any other questions, please post them to this group for a response. THANKS!!!

• Dennis Moore, disclaimer available on request

In article <1994Jan15.213515.20164_at_newsgate.sps.mot.com> ttg242_at_newton.sps.mot.com writes:
>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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Received on Sun Jan 16 1994 - 22:00:04 CET