Re: Oracle8 vs. MS Access

From: Piquet <PiquetRemoveThisToReply_at_bigpond.com>
Date: 1998/12/08
Message-ID: <366C8297.BF0A5827_at_bigpond.com>#1/1


John Haskins wrote:

> After many years of programming Access front ends for Oracle databases, I
> started using Oracle's Develper/2000 to create forms & reports. Very nice.
> It has far fewer annoying quirks than Access, offers similar speed, and has
> all the advantages that come from the GUI knowing just about everything
> about its back end database. Not cheap, but worth it if you have to develop
> widely-distributed apps, IMHO.

Cheap... that's key. I've considered myself lucky to be able to upgrade the network server to 5.0, and have a 5 user version of Oracle thrown. hehehe... Still, it is coming up to budget time. Who knows?

Piquet Received on Tue Dec 08 1998 - 00:00:00 CET

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