Re: continuation of PB vs Forms 4.5

Benita Haslett wrote:
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> This is 2nd instalment of posting !
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> - Forms 4.5 should be easier and more flexible to develop and
> maintain very complex forms. Is that your experience?

I found that Forms 4.5 was very limited in it's capability, difficult to work with between 'forms' and extremely limited in its presentation.

Last I heard, you can only develop MDI apps, and it always forces the presence of "Windows" in the menu even if you do not want this (they said it is standard, we know that MDI is no longer the only standard and with Windows 95 and NT it is no longer even the preferred windows management style).

> - How does PowerBuilder fare when there are complex database
> constraints and complex database triggers.

About like any other front-end development tool - you send update, update fails due to constraint or trigger, you display oracle message and clean up from bad processing.

> - What do you perceive to be the pros and cons of each product?
> (Forms 4.5 and PowerBuilder)
>

PowerBuilder is a mature product, and getting a whole lot better all the time.

Oracle puts out a great database.

> - Have you experienced any problems with PowerBuilder?
> e.g. bugs, support, interfacing with Or

Anyone doing serious development with any tool experiences problems with bugs, support, etc. However, PowerBuilder knows that Oracle is the number one selling database. They support Sybase, then Oracle and ODBC. Others then follow.

> Thanks in advance for any light you can shed for us.
>
> Benita
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> Benita
Received on Fri May 10 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST