Re: CDE2 requirements and other questions
Date: 21 Mar 1995 19:39:02 GMT
Message-ID: <3kna0m$ahf_at_news1.cle.ab.com>
Jon asks:
> We've been getting some conflicting info from Oracle regarding PC
> requirements for CDE2. What is required for a developer in terms of ram,
> disk, and cpu? How about for an end-user? What components need to
> reside on an end-users PC?
>
> And, in general, what do you think about CDE2 for developing
> client/server applications? How does the tool set compare with the
> SQLWindows and Powerbuilders? Extensibility? Access to non-oracle
> databases? Visual programming?
>
For the development platform a 486/66 w/16M of RAM will do (barely)
I would really recomend 32M of RAM and DEFINITELY A CD-ROM DRIVE (or
else you face many, many floppies). For clients a 486/33 w/16M of RAM
runs well (and maybe a 386/33 w/16M could do). I would definitely
look into running NT instead of Windows 3.1 for the developers, from
my experience w/3.1 (and WFW 3.11) it can be bothersome.
As far as opinions on the tools themselves, I don't think anyone (except
maybe Sybase Corp. people) would argue that working with the same vendor
for the front-end as you do the back-end has its advantages. The only
tool I can compare Forms development to is OMNIS7 (a little known
Blythe Software tool), a little VB, and a little Clarion, and I think
Forms (as well as the rest of the CDE suite) does a very good job, they
originally lacked some GUI-ness, but CDE2 did a good job catching them
up on that. As far as coding goes, less code is needed in Forms then
on any of the tools I know (not that coding is bad ;-), and if you have
ANY forms to convert from 3.x, you would do yourself a great disservice
to not let forms do the conversion for you.
Mike Pantaleano
mike.pantaleano_at_ab.com
The opinions expressed here are not that of my employer or his employer or his employer, or his employer... You get the picture. Received on Tue Mar 21 1995 - 20:39:02 CET