Unix & Forms 4 Integration with MS-Windows
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 04:18:01 +0000
Message-ID: <792908281snz_at_sambusys.demon.co.uk>
We currently have a very nice system written using SqlForms 2.3 &
Oracle 6 running on Unix. Terminals are PCs running terminal
emulation software under Microsoft Windows. We want/need to upgrade
(for marketing reasons, mainly) to Oracle 7 and a GUI environment.
The purchase of a whole lot of Unix workstations is not affordable
and, besides, the users want to continue running all the MS-Windows
applications that they do at the moment.
I am toying with the idea of running one of the several X-for-MSWindows products on the users' PC's. Two questions:
(1) Would that allow me to run SQL*Forms 4.+ in GUI mode as an X
application?
(2) Does the above implementation mean I don't have to buy SQL*Net
or Oracle for MS-Windows?
Surely many others must have faced the same type of upgrade considerations. I would appreciate any feedback.
-- Paul Beardsell SAM Business Systems Ltd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 21 Finn House, Bevenden St, pbeardsell_at_cix.compulink.co.uk London, N1-6BN, UK. psb_at_sambusys.demon.co.uk (+44 or 0)71 608-2391Received on Thu Feb 16 1995 - 05:18:01 CET