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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone still deploying Oracle Forms or Apex fo... by scarface_74 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:42PM (#42759333)
Software development and continuous maintenance costs money and not every company has any business trying to run a software development department.

Every company should be focused on data analytics though

Especially writing a bespoke data entry system.

You can find plenty of cheap good enough consulting companies that can make modifications to any of the third party SaaS products.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone still deploying Oracle Forms or Apex fo... by avivallssa on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:17AM (#42765211)
Understood. It is no doubt the maintenance and the time to build. However, it does take some efforts to build Oracle forms that requires a good amount of development time in PL/SQL and for customization of forms screens.
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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone still deploying Oracle Forms or Apex fo... by scarface_74 on Monday January 20, 2025 @09:56AM (#42769348)
The thing is that it is a well understood platform and easy to hire out one of the major consulting companies by giving them the requirements and signing a statement of work.

Then when you don’t want to deal with them, hire out another one.

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