Re: job market for oracle developers?

From: Jan Gelbrich <j_gelbrich_at_westfalen-blatt.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:48:37 +0200
Message-ID: <ahmetk$udhk0$1@ID-152732.news.dfncis.de>

> > You can use Developer Suite 5 or 6i on Oracle DB 8, 8i and afaik even
9i.
> >
>
> how about developer suite 9i then? what databases does that cover?
Afaik, all databases (7,7,8i,9i), and they say even non-oracle databases.

> is it better to learn 6i?

I did not use Developer Suite 9i yet, so I cannot compare.

I started working with Developer 6i just 5 months ago, and I still have a long way to go, since I could not visit any courses for it. As far as I can see now, it is more difficult than administering the db itself. Forms is *very* complex application developement. And there are very few books on it available, even O´Reilly provides not even one !

There are people, too, who say that Forms (in Developer Suite) is not state of the art,
and who turn to Visual C++ to make their own Oracle Applications. On the other hand, then You must study C++, too ... I cannot code C++ well, so I stay to Forms, because there I can use PL/SQL. But this is everyones own decision...

Regards, Jan Received on Wed Jul 24 2002 - 09:48:37 CDT