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- From: jlove@ivrit.ra.itd.umich.edu (Jack Love)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Oracle Card v.s. SQL*FORMS 4.0
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 22:00:16 GMT
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- In article <C0GB3B.KzB@zoo.toronto.edu> sonya@zoo.toronto.edu (Sonya Neufer) writes:
- >Does anybody know when the next version of Oracle Card and SQL*FORMS
- >4.0 is to be released?
-
- Oracle is not commenting on the release of Forms 4. The question
- with respect to Oracle*Card is what release are you referring to?
- There has already been a significant enhancement to the MS-DOS
- (Windows) version of Oracle*Card which resulted in a significant
- increase in price--I believe this is version 1.1. I haven't yet
- heard when the equivalent product will be released for Mac.
-
- >Since SQL*FORMS 4.0 is going to be a Windows
- >Application what is the difference between it and Oracle Card?
-
- Different animals. SQL*Forms is a traditional electronic data input
- program which emphasizes rapid application development for data
- input operators with a high degree of data integrity. It is an
- incremental improvement over Forms 3 adding integrated menus,
- greater GUI compatibility and even some use of effects such as
- graphics and sound. Oracle*Card is also an application development
- tool, but it is based on the Hypercard metaphor. It has built-
- in reporting capabilities that are not yet implemented for
- SQL*Forms, but the reports are pretty rudimentary. It has very
- little in the way of automatic data validation so I find that
- application development is much slower. Performance is sluggish,
- at least compared to SQL*Forms under DOS or Unix. It is often
- possible to create feature-rich applications with SQL*Forms
- with little or no resort to 3GL's, but everyone I know who has
- developed with Oracle*Card has had to do at least some 3GL
- programming. A lot of people think that Oracle*Card is more
- "fun." SQL*Forms is a boring "mainframish" environment.
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