Re: Interesting Challange

It's my understanding that the problem here is that Personal Oracle (any version) runs under the Windows "operating system" and Forms 3.0 is strictly a DOS-mode product. Oracle could never come up with a way of making these two products talk with one another, and since there is no support for Forms 3.0 anymore, there isn't likely to be. It may be possible to run the Forms 3.0 stuff in DOS windows, but that's your best bet. Good luck. Jerry
P.S. Let me know if you have any success in this endeavor.

David Lord wrote:

> I was asked to go back to an old client of mine (who will remain nameless)
> to create a database to support an old system (it must be kept alive for a
> number of years for access to the information - which also can not be
> migrated to a new system for business reasons).
>
> No problem I thought, the system runs on HP-UX 10.20 Oracle 7.2.2.4 and uses
> a mixture of Forms 3.0 and Forms 4.5 screens. Cutting edge stuff. (Ok it
> pays the bills etc etc).
>
> Here's the challage. The IT manager (and the permy DBA), has decided that
> to save costs, the backend should be migrated to NT running Personnal
> Oracle. Pause. Personnal Oracle and Forms 3.0. Apparently this will save
> a bucket of cash.
>
> They are convinced that this is possible, yet I am equally certain that
> Personnal Oracle is not compatable with SQL*Net 1.1 required to service
> Forms 3.0.
>
> Since this was a fixed price contact, I told them to give me a call when
> they got board trying to get this working. So my question is. Can Forms
> 3.0 run against Personnal Oracle. Ignore the certification and support
> issues for a moment, just technically can this work.
Received on Thu Dec 10 1998 - 09:03:07 CST