Re: ORACLE*CASE in 7.1

In article: <D3zuMF.Kvw_at_demon.co.uk> Dave Easeman <easemand_at_x500.bt.co.uk> writes:
> CASE 5.0 only supports version 6 design, CASE 5.1 supports ORACLE 7. CASE
 5.0 is a forms 3
> interface, CASE 5.1 is Forms 4. As I understand it, if you have a full
 support licence for
> CASE, you can upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 without additional cost. However,
 Oracle are putting
> their development effort into MS windows; 5.1 has been production on MS
 windows since May '95.
> It was also suppose to be production on UNIX then as well; I have recently
 been told here in
> UK that for Sun, CASE 5.1 will now not be production until May '96!!!

CASE Dictionary 5.1 for UNIX should be available in about five weeks time (ie March 95). This is what Oracle UK are telling the client I'm currently working with. I believe this timescale is realistic.

>
> The product is being totally rewritten for MS Windows, including a new
 designer front end.
> This rewrite will only be available on MS Windows (for MS Windows also
 read OS/2, possibly?)
> There will also be an additinal module for handling Business Process
 Re-engineering; incidently
> the new product will be renamed!

CDE2 CASE is a rewrite (although the repository is pretty much the same) of Oracle's CASE products. It consists of:

Process Modeller (BPR)
Systems Modeller (Strategy, Analysis)
Systems Designer (Database and Module Design)
Server Generator (DDL)

These are all *highly* graphical, visual tools, and incorporate the common Object Navigator interface as seen in Forms 4.5, et al.

They run on Windows only, and should be available from April(ish) onwards.

>
> This is the UK perspective; the US seems to get these products well before
us. All in all,

The delays aren't usually too bad. CDE2 Tools went production in the US about 5 weeks ago. They're *supposedly* available this week in the UK.

> the delays in producing the UNIX CASE version to support Oracle 7
 development has been a farce.
>

You're right. However, at least Oracle were bold enough to recognise that CASE 5.1 was junk (though I'm not sure they'd word it that way), and that their CASE products needed a major overhaul, particularly in their user-interfaces. This was done at the expense of customers waiting for the production release of 5.1 for UNIX (the beta version has been generally available for 10/12 months or so). Whether you agree with this or not is likely to depend on whether you're a user who's going to benefit from the rapid availability of the flashy, new CDE2 CASE products on Windows, or a UNIX CASE 5.1 user who's struggled along for months!  

Regards
Tony. Received on Wed Feb 15 1995 - 02:00:11 CET