Re: Low cost ORACLE development

powerbuilder is ok. if your on the pc, visual basic is cheaper, power objects is cheapest by far, and will be fastest. replication tech is complicated, you better be sure you want that before trying it.

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In article <4eogl8$oh0_at_canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, collier_at_mbnet.mb.ca (Jim
Collier) wrote:



> Hello

> 

> My company is about to develop software for the ORACLE database system

> using Powerbuilder. 

> 

> The production database and the development computer systems are

> separate machines and are not co-located. The database server will be

> a Windows NT CPU running ORACLE Enterprise.

> 

> The production application will require the replication features as

> well as the two phase commit features of ORACLE Enterprise.

> 

> The cost of ORACLE Enterprise is very expensive for just two

> developers.  What  options are there to develop ORACLE applications

> as cheaply as possible and yet get it to work properly on the

> Enterprise environment?

> 

> 

> Jim Collier


> Winnipeg, Manitoba