Re: Oracle Forms/Reports Dilemma

Brian Peasland wrote:
> 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
>

Many thanks. Ed. Received on Mon Sep 18 2006 - 06:51:54 CDT