Re: Help about develop in character mode with Oracle 7.3 and Forms 3.0 and RPT

In article <slrn6r9kov.gqk.joelga_at_pebble.org>,   joelga_at_nospam.pebble.org wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:08:39 GMT, cestrela_at_my-dejanews.com
<cestrela_at_my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >We have Oracle 6.0, and we developed all our aplications on this database.
> >
> >Now, we would like updgrade to Oracle 7.3, and develop in character mode
> >with Oracle Forms 3.0 and RPT.
> >
> >What is the right platform ? Solaris, AIX,....??
>
> Those are both nice platforms. What sort of performance do you need?
>
> These days, I think unless you have some stiff scalability requirements or
> commercial apps that only run on certain systems, it's almost a tossup between
> the various major unix vendors. They all have their idiosyncracies, and
> the popularity waxes and wanes over time. The raid stuff can be _very_
> idiosyncratic.
>
> If you are still on 6.0, one can guess you have a fairly stable application
> environment, so you don't need to worry about the top-end of any series. You
> should be able to just size a nice mid-range platform. Where are you now?
>
> I thought I was the last dinosaur who appreciated character mode, but even I
> have to question staying with Forms 3.0 and Rpt, if you are going to a new
> platform. Do you have thousands of VT52's hanging around or something?
>
> >
> >I need your help,
> >
> >
> >Thank you
> >
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The type of platform isn't really important although Oracle is developed on Solaris machines, the nported to the other environments (apart from NT of course)

One important hing to bear in mind is that 7.3 is *NOT* delivered with Froms 3.0 and/or RPT.

So you need 7.1 on some machine your terminals are hooking up to and go from that *pseudo* client to your 7.3 database server via SQL*Net 2

HTH
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