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To: Tom Kearney who wrote (4722)	12/22/1997 11:46:00 AM
From: Michael Olin	Respond to of 19080

Tom, The important thing in the referenced post is that Peoplesoft has decertified ORACLE 8. This has zero impact on existing customers who are running Peoplesoft on Oracle7. Believe me, they are not about to upgrade until 8.1 ships (and the problems with 8.0 are shaken out). New Peoplesoft sites can, and will, run their apps on Oracle7 which is rock solid (and a hell of a lot more stable than SQL Server on NT). BTW, comparing the Forms and Reports tools of 10 years ago (actually, you are talking about Oracle's IAF - Interactive Application Facility and RPT - Report Writer, but let's not get bogged down in semantics) to D2K is just plain silly. Ten years ago, I was happily editing text files (.INP) to build character mode data entry forms. At that time, the functionality provided by Oracle's tools was far more advanced in terms of built in functionality (automatic support for insert, update, delete and query by example with no coding required, built in concurrency control, the list goes on) than anything else that was available. Oracle's first attempt at a GUI development tool (Then called CDE, including Oracle Forms 4.0, Oracle Reports 2.0 and others) was a barely usable first try, but full of bugs. The current tools offering, Developer/2000 is stable, usable and feature rich. Release 2.0 of D2K shows even more promise. I try to stay as far away from DBA stuff as possible, so I can't speak to problems with OEM. The web stuff (if you're talking about the web forms cartridge, I can talk about problems for hours, but that is really bleeding edge) is a more hit or miss issue, but I think Oracle is going in the right direction. With my head kept clear of where it doesn't belong... -Michael