Re: Forms 9i middle tier on client?
Date: 19 Mar 2003 00:38:55 -0800
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DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3E68C31B.8286BD3C_at_exesolutions.com>...
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> Daniel Morgan
[Quoted] [Quoted] It might not take them any time at all, all functionality is still there, and recently the C/S version of forms was still present in the makefile, you could just "make" f90runm on unix. I hope they will come to their sences ...
(vague hope: "sences" <-> "US" ??? come on, flame me)
This "web" technology creates bandwidth problems too, a 64Kb line will not serve 4 active users, we'll run into trouble with offices abroad. But then, of course, Oracle is not interested in customers with 64Kb lines.
Geert Received on Wed Mar 19 2003 - 09:38:55 CET