Re: Why Oracle Tools?......

total, utter, and complete hogwash...

not all oracle tools are good, i believe the enterprise tools, like the ones you mention, forms and reports, are too complex for many projects.

oracle talks to other databases the same as other vendors products talk to oracle, via ODBC.

Oracle Power Objects all by itself is a real nice gui and reports generator.

by the way, Visual Basic has no native tools for dealing with a database! worse, it has no after market vendor making anything like you need when trying to get screens up and running agains tables. you will spend plenty of hair pulling making a database gui with vb.

even oracle enterprise tools like forms are superior to vb in this regard.

also, vb is not cross platform, oracl is on all levels.

In article <4a3isi$km4_at_bingen.hrp.no>, jensr_at_hrp.no (Jens Roynlid) wrote:

> tluers_at_one.net (t) wrote:
> >I'd love to hear your two cents worth to the folowing question:
 

> >As a development environement that uses an Oracle server, why should I
> >choose Oracle tools (Forms, Reprts, etc...) for my front end? Why not
> >Delphi, Forte, VB, or others?
>
> I could give you some reasons why you should NOT choose Oracle tools:
>
> 1. Oracle doesn't support Windows 95 or Windows NT. (They may run, but
> try to ask Oracle support for help with any problems - they'll turn
> you down immediately.)
>
> 2. The Oracle tools support only Oracle databases natively.
>
> 3. The UI produced by Oracle tools is generally unacceptable (lots of
> quirks).
>
> 4. There are lots of limitations in the Oracle tools (e.g. error
> messages cannot have more than 100 characters).
>
> 5. When you deploy applications written in Oracle tools, you'll get
> lots of technical supprt questions because of UI intricacies, product
> instability, etc.
>
> 6. Error messages produced at runtime are cryptic and difficult for
> users to understand.
>
> My advice: forget Oracle tools, use VB or Delphi. They're modern,
> flexible and extensible tools and support several different
> databases.
>
> All opinions expressed here are mine, and not necessarily my
> employer's.
>
> Regards,
> Jens R.
Received on Sat Dec 09 1995 - 00:00:00 CET