Development tools (was Is PowerHouse DEAD?)

[Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa)]

> I believe Oracle Forms (part of Oracle Developer) ONLY works 
> with Oracle
> databases.  Virtually ALL Oracle application packages such as 
> Financials,
> Manufacturing, etc. use Forms as their front end.

Does anyone here have any idea how much it costs to convert a legacy system
(PH/COBOL/whatever) into Oracle, especially a huge financial system with
over 10gig of data and code!? What's scary is where is the money coming
from?