Re: Forms 9i middle tier on client?
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 18:10:00 GMT
Message-ID: <b4an9o$kpd$1_at_cronkite.cc.uga.edu>
In article <3E68C31B.8286BD3C_at_exesolutions.com>, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote:
>I can certainly understand how momentum at Oracle in Redwood Shores might push
> them to be
>thinking 'web' but in so-doing they have decided to compete against .NET and
> ignore VB and
>Access. It is an abandonment of a very large market segment and a blunder.
Well said... just what I was thinking.
>I could understand deciding not to create a new client-server implementation.
> But realistically
>how hard would it have been to provide a simple tool to port 9i forms to a
> format where they
>would have run under the client-server runtime? One developer ... 90 days? If
> that!
>
>Daniel Morgan
Deciding not to create a new c-s implementation is one thing. Dropping all support is what's going to force shops to move to a competitor's development software (and possibly DBMS?) if they're not interested in web deployment. Received on Fri Mar 07 2003 - 19:10:00 CET