Re: Where is Oracle going/positioning itself ...?

simple really, some God in Oracle managed to get Power Objects invented, as a responselikely to the success of Visual Basic, and PowerBUilder, which bypasses and makes obsolete the Forms paradigm. Forms is an elephant, where OPO is a cheetah. the web is a phenom that undercuts all the GUI development tools. Oracle is large enough to see and react to it, though it has spent millions building its GUI tools. notice, tho, that Oracle makes a web product that bridges between HTML and PL/SQL and the server, it does not make a GUI builder tool in HTML. Java is a curiosity that adds flavor and punch to HTML. it isnit pertinent to the discussion, really. Finally, OPO is cross platform, we are proving it on a project we're doing where half the developers are on macs, half on pc, and they exchange code at the end of the day to make it run on each.

Oracle, like IBM, is large enough to play on a lot of corners. Over time, i see Oracle challenging Microsoft for world dominance in most software cats, not just in DB.

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In article <48f9k3$kts_at_news1.sunbelt.net>, Alan Johnson
<alan.johnson_at_gel.com> wrote:



> I'm having a hard time understanding where Oracle is positioning itself


> when I consider their three development approaches:

> 

>  1) SQL Forms 4.x

>  2) Power Objects

>  3) PowerServer/PowerBrowser

> 

> On the one hand, Forms has always been the "standard" for large scale 

> corporate development in Oracle. But Forms seems to be stalled, in that

> cross platform versions of 4.5 Forms for the Mac and Unix still aren't

> available (true?). PowerOjects is the rage now, but it has no full

> cross platform capability. Now enter the WWW tools, with their

> inclusion of Java, PowerObjects, and who knows what else. What's a

> poor mother to do? Too many children are vying for my attention!

> 

> Any thoughts?

> 

> Alan

> 

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