Re: Power Objects - Is there a market?

baloney, you gotta be a db designer, a practioner to appreciate what and how a tools can be used.

i am, and ill tell you, Oracle may have a marketing line that places OPO below enterprise Forms, but it will make any screen better than VB, better than Forms, and better than Powerbuilder, in a fraction of the time, and you can get reports done in the same tools without a flinch.

OPO, to those that know, and have the experience to tell the difference, is a tool worth knowing about...

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In article <4a5o4d$79e$1_at_mhafn.production.compuserve.com>,
3rihel$r46_at_warp.cris.com <102134.3627_at_CompuServe.COM> wrote:



> Ladies and Gentlemen;

> 

>      As a relative newcommer to the Net, I am still surprised at 

> the venom that is passed around under the guise of opinion.  To 

> the person who said that PC folks are "weenies" I say that I 

> believe most of us tend to be biased towards the hardware and 

> software that we are most comfortable with and which has provided 

> us with our livelihood.  And while many of the comments this 

> individual made had some sound reasoning, its too bad the message 

> appeared to be designed to inflame rather than share a well 

> thought out opinion.  But I digress...

> 

> Oracle Corporation is putting alot of $$ and effort into OPO.  

> Will that guarantee success, hardly.  But, the real story is that 

> OPO is not being positioned as a large-scale development or 

> deployment platform.  It is being targeted at the small to 

> mid-sized business who can't afford, don't need, or don't want a 

> full blown Oracle7 DB and the joys and headaches it brings along 

> with the increase in IS staff required to feed and care for it.  

> With that in mind, I think Oracle sees OPO in the market they have 

> never successfully competed in, and while it will never be a large 

> revenue stream, it does enhance Oracle's position as an industry 

> leader.  In other words, never let a cash cow go unmilked (or 

> milked by the other guys).  In my humble opinion...


> Dan Hinkle -- President, Mid-Atlantic Oracle Users Group