Re: Powerbuilder problems?

Dennis Moore (dbmoore_at_us.oracle.com) wrote:
> In article <CpwJMG.AtI_at_stortek.com> v045101_at_procyon.stortek.com (Sean Stasica) writes:
 

> I don't want to get into marketing wars on some of Sean's other points, as
> I want people to use the right tool for the job with Oracle7, whether that
> tool is PB or Forms. Forms is the right tool for portable, multi-lingual,
> or enterprise-scale applications; PB may be the right tool for other jobs.
 

> I believe that PowerSoft are working on some of the bind variable issues --
> 3.0a uses bind variables in a small number of situations, and I would suspect
> that they will improve this in 4.0 or beyond.

                                 ^^^
                             v3.1 is the next release...maybe sooner than 4.0?!

I hope so. I'd really like to hear from PowerBuilder users who do develop for an Oracle environment, for 100+ concurrent users. To know that PB does slow down with 20 users is pretty disappointing, but to justify it in terms of Forms 4.0 being better I felt was the wrong approach, even if it was from an Oracle rep. But, I get the feeling from this newsgroup that most people are developing either for small user groups (because it is a PC-based product) or for other databases that may not have some of the same performance issues. I've got a bad taste in my mouth from Forms 4.0, but unfortunately the competition still isn't there to address the portablility and enterprise-wide solutions.... and I'm very open to disagreement on that statement!

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