Re: Oracle Forms/Reports Dilemma

Ed_Zep wrote:
> We're upgrading from Forms 6i to 9i and could do with some advice.
>
> Our developers use Windows to develop but our direction is very much
> Red Hat Linux.
>
> Is it feasible (in the real world, not Oracle's world) to:
>
> Let them develop on their own Windows boxes
> Get them to move the fmbs to a Linux test server and compile
> Recompile in a Linux production environment
>
> Obviously, my concern is that it'll work in testing only to find that
> are some "anomalies".
>
> Thanks, Ed.
>

Provided your Forms apps are not making platform-specific calls, this should work fine. We have some Forms apps that are platform-specific due to our interactions with platform-specific API's. But we have other Forms apps which we have moved from Windows to Unix without problems, since what the app did was platform-independent.

HTH,
Brian

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