Development tools (was Is PowerHouse DEAD?)

[Peter Bateman]

Fernando:

  The money always comes from the consumer.

  I heard a lecture on software acquisition.
  The lecturer made an interesting point:-
  some developers of packages have surveyed practitioners
  in a field and often their packages reflect industry standard
  business methodologies. If most of the packages do not fit the
  way you do business maybe it is time to review how you do business.
  In other words it maybe more cost effective to buy a package
  and conform than to build your own customized application
  whether that be in Oracle Forms or whatever.

  The cost of converting an application depends on many factors.
  1) How much procedural code are we dealing with? Where will it go?
  2) How well does the converter know Oracle PL/SQL and Oracle Forms?
  3) How well does the converter know PowerHouse and Cobol?
  4) How accepting are users of operational differences?
     PowerHouse has many builtin functions. I knew one consultant
     who would give each user a copy of 'Your Guide to Quick Screens'!
     I knew one user who was very annoyed at her IS department
     because they had not included the old Quick trick of selecting
     on the first part of a character item in her Oracle forms.
     What if the users are using metacharacter selects?
  5) What data base are they converting from? ALLBASE to Oracle
     I don't believe would be too difficult. IMAGE or InterBase
     a little more difficult. etc.

Regards,
Peter Bateman






>From: "Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa)" <Fernando.Olmos@alcoa.com.au>
>To: "'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'" <powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>
>Subject: RE: Development tools (was Is PowerHouse DEAD?)
>Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:41:52 +0800
>
> > 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?
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