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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by C1sc0cat on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:51AM (#23536867)
Something like Oracle forms with a custom clinet application talking to a database server.
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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by noizejoy on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:19AM (#23536973)
Yeah - kind of, but Oracle forms originally didn’t even have a graphical client - that’s probably why Powerbuilder and Visual Basic dominated the early 90s. Also, Oracle was still fighting it out with Sybase in the mini computer dbms space.
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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by ako on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:59AM (#23540702)
Oracle forms 2.3 & 3 where graphical terminal apps, starting forms 4.0 it also included windows (and X) clients.
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