Re: Does Oracle + VB is a good combination
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:48:41 GMT
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"vincent delft" <vincent_delft_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I must set-up an application with an Oracle Database running on Unix and a
> GUI running on Windows 2000/XP machines.
> The size of the DB is about 5GB.
> The application will have about 1000 users and about 200 concurrent users
> connected via a WAN.
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> My management propose the combination Oracle - ODBC - Visual Basic.
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> Does this will be stable and reliable enough ?
> Must I propose an another architectur ? (PowerBuilder ?, Java ?, ...)
> Does web based application can be cheaper (to build and maintain) than VB
?
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> Thanks for your feedbacks.
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If you have to go with VB I would use Oracle's Ole Objects. Fast, easy to
use bind variables, easy to code, supports all the native types.
Jim
Received on Wed Oct 15 2003 - 03:48:41 CEST