Re: Fat vs Thin Citrix vs OAS

Jerry Alan Braga wrote:
>
> Currently we run fat client for all our developer form/report applications.
>
> We now are starting to develop applications that we be run by users over a
> WAN Frame-relay network that runs at 56k
>
> We are looking at a possible shift from using FAT client to either
> FAT/Citrix or THIN/web brower and the oracle way of doing it.
>
> 1) Is there anyone out there that has experience in either?
> 2) What are the pros/cons of each one?
> 3) Which way is better ?, more stable ?, costly ?
> 4) What are the development requirements of doing it the WWW way.
>
> We currently are developing using Dev2k (forms 5, reports 3 etc)
> We do have developer 6.x but have not started to use it
> Do we wait for Developer 6i

My 2c worth...

1. Forms 5 over web using Jinitiator - reasonable
2. Forms 6 over web using Jinitiator - better, faster, occasional hangs still
3. Reports 5 or 6 over Web. Excellent, pdf's typically better result then html.

HTH

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