Re: What's Project X?

Rich,

Do you think that Oracle will back off its commitment to Oracle Forms and emphasize this as their recommended development tool? Also, will it support multiple platforms? It sounds like they are positioning it to compete with VB, Powerbuilder, etc. We are struggling with Forms 4.0 because of, among other things, some severe resource requirements  on the client workstation. In fact, the only Oracle client/server applications that we have in  production utilize C++ or Visual Basic on the client. VB is no good for many of our apps because out of the 4000 users we have, about 20% are Macintosh. I understand that version 4.5 of Forms is an improvement but is not yet available.

Thanks,

Jonathan

In article <finkel.33.002013EE_at_links.com>, finkel_at_links.com (Richard Finkelstein) says:
>
>Hi Tom.
>
>Project X is a new Windows-based application develompent tool which has been
>announced by Oracle. It has been displayed at some shows and it is aimed at
>the desktop market - e.g., easier to learn, high productivity, tightly
>integrated links with Oracle RDBMS.
>
>From what I have seen, I am pretty bullish on its possibilities. It is too
>early to say how successful it will be (depends alot on the stability of the
>implementation and how Oracle markets it) but my guess is that it is going to
>be very warmly received by current and potential Oracle customers.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rich

>Richard Finkelstein
>Performance Computing, Inc.
>312-549-8325 (Voice)
>312-549-4824 (Fax)
Received on Mon Jan 09 1995 - 23:28:17 CET