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Question 6: Which new Features did you wish for Forms 12?

Most named topics were:

- reintroduction Client/Server
- integration of a modern pl/sql editor
-- with auto-suggest, formatter and code completion
-- enhanced syntax highlighting
- integration of pl/sql-refactoring
- easier installation
- forms-blocks build on data grids
-- access to all records at the same time
-- switching columns
-- increase and decrease column width
- better integration of reports and java beans
- creating objects at runtime
- drag and drop
- zooming formlayout


To be continued with What will the future bring?

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Question 5: What did you think about the future of Oracle Forms?

That was not a question with an easy Yes or No. But 70% of all answers gave positive feedback.

Some answers were extreme positive or negative: For example: "More stable that all java-frameworks", "Forms Web is bad, as Client/Server full of grandeur", "There are no clever alternatives" or "Forms will die, whatever we do in the next 5, 10 or 20 years".

In most answers they repeated the appeal to Oracle, to develop Forms further: "It must be more done for Forms! Then we have a future", "Forms (more...)

Question 4: Are you thinking about a replacement?


One-third of all forms-applications will be replaced with Java, ADF and .NET.

Very interesting: 40% of all customers, who leave Forms, went to Microssofts .NET. Oracle's ADF is only on rank 3.


To be continued with Question 5: What did you think about the future of Oracle Forms?

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Question 3: Are you thinking about a migration?


More than two-thirds of all forms-applications will be migrated to Forms 10g or 11g in the next years.

That's good news. It means, that all those unsupported old forms-versions went to a modern three tier architecture.

But what about the 20 percent of the applications, which are still running under Forms 6i Client/Server? Maybe the next question is the answer:


To be continued with Question 4: Are you thinking about a replacement?

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Question 2: Since how many years did you work with Forms?


Some answers like "I work with Forms since 2.3" are matched to "24 years" :-)

The average of all forms-developers work sind 15 years with the toolset. That is an amazing amount of time.


To be continued with Question 3: Are you thinking about a migration?

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