Re: Oracle Forms vs Visual Studio .Net

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1074267648.488805_at_yasure...
> I've read Andrew and Jeff's responses and want to give you some
> additional arguments in favor of Oracle Forms.

> 4. Far superior security to .NET

> 5. Far tighter integration than .NET

How well is forms integrated with the application server (IIS/COM+) that will be in use here?

> 6. Far more sensible approach if using the database for anything other
> than columns and rows.

I don't think that I understand?

> 7. Platform independence

but this already is an MS shop. Isn't this argument a bit of a red herring?

> 8. More stable
> 9. More scalable

I wonder if you can substantiate the above claims.

> From my experience with .NET ... I am far less than impressed. Some of
> the worst code I've ever seen has been in .NET. If you are going to work
> with SQL Server ... .NET may make sense. Against Oracle I'd definitely
> go with Forms. And if not forms I'd be looking at Delphi or other tools
> as my second choice.

On the whole I disagree, ISTM that with the .Net runtime and the Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft have just about the best development environment that there is out there. It sure as hell beats JDeveloper. I also seem to recall someone recently saying that you couldn't blame Oracle for the crap code out there that runs on Oracle - to the extent that this is true it would seem that blaming MS for poor development on .net is an equally unconvincing argument.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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