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Post #167,781
by Another Scott
8/5/04 6:03:55 PM
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New I'm confused.
Yes, I know, not for the first time.

You said this project could be done in 2 months if you didn't do the front-end. That seems to me to imply that you want the front-end done using in-house expertise. IIRC, you're very fond of proven technology and don't like being a guinea pig.

With all of that, why not use something well understood like plain-old VB or plain-old Delphi or plain-old whatever your Windows UI developers are happy with? Being on the bleeding edge (with .NET or especially Mono) seems very unlike my picture of you.

Confusedly,
Scott.
Post #167,789
by broomberg
8/5/04 6:41:33 PM
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New Very observant
I know so little about .Net that I got sucked
into the thinking that it is merely the
current MS technology that I'd need to deal with.

I'm currently taking an online .Net intro course
and see it is WAY more, which means I don't really
care about it any more.

This will be a vanilla Client / Server, with the client
being (most likely) VB, server being Oracle along
with most business logic residing on either Oracle
or some type of intermediate application. I assume
I want a broker in front of Oracle but I'm not quite
sure yet.
Post #167,795
by ben_tilly
8/5/04 7:46:37 PM
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New Suggestion
Let them do the front end in regular VB.

Check from time to time that it still works on Linux with crossover office. Any problems that prevent that are to be fixed.

There's Linux compatibility and Linux compatibility. If you want quick and dirty, do quick and dirty.

Cheers,
Ben
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Post #167,796
by broomberg
8/5/04 7:48:22 PM
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New Hmm.
Cross-over office compatibility.
I like!
     Mono? - (broomberg) - (33) - Aug. 5, 2004, 12:21:57 AM EDT
         Why not Delphi in stead? (And Kylix in stead of Mono.) -NT - (CRConrad) - (19) - Aug. 5, 2004, 06:09:33 AM EDT
             It's dead - (broomberg) - (18) - Aug. 5, 2004, 10:10:14 AM EDT
                 Those words may come back to haunt you... ;-) - (admin) - Aug. 5, 2004, 10:28:20 AM EDT
                 Re: It's dead - (deSitter) - (3) - Aug. 5, 2004, 10:30:07 AM EDT
                     Ahhh...ahhhh....ahhh.....aychoochtml -NT - (FuManChu) - Aug. 5, 2004, 12:28:09 PM EDT
                     We discussed both - (broomberg) - (1) - Aug. 5, 2004, 01:44:55 PM EDT
                         Acrobat forms = javascript - (deSitter) - Aug. 5, 2004, 02:00:36 PM EDT
                 That would indicate (to the savvy manager, at least)... - (jb4) - (1) - Aug. 5, 2004, 02:02:59 PM EDT
                     Different levels of noise - (broomberg) - Aug. 5, 2004, 02:30:57 PM EDT
                 The glimpses you provide into corporate decision making - (tuberculosis) - (10) - Aug. 5, 2004, 06:05:58 PM EDT
                     Re: The glimpses you provide into corporate decision making - (deSitter) - (8) - Aug. 5, 2004, 06:09:52 PM EDT
                         I don't think it has to work that way - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Aug. 5, 2004, 08:48:25 PM EDT
                             Huh? - (broomberg) - (6) - Aug. 5, 2004, 09:00:24 PM EDT
                                 Its a lot easier to teach a programmer business than - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Aug. 5, 2004, 10:02:09 PM EDT
                                     "Conventional" is there for a reason - (broomberg) - (4) - Aug. 5, 2004, 10:30:04 PM EDT
                                         I object to your characterization - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Aug. 5, 2004, 11:04:39 PM EDT
                                             No, but you'll take a chance on an - (broomberg) - (2) - Aug. 6, 2004, 12:08:05 AM EDT
                                                 If I were you - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 6, 2004, 12:18:38 AM EDT
                                                     Done - (broomberg) - Aug. 6, 2004, 06:39:31 AM EDT
                     Sorry - (broomberg) - Aug. 5, 2004, 06:35:30 PM EDT
         Mono will be more... - (folkert) - (6) - Aug. 5, 2004, 11:43:50 AM EDT
             To paraphrase: "Mono. a better .NET than .NET" - (jb4) - (5) - Aug. 5, 2004, 02:05:22 PM EDT
                 You like? Yeah, wow, great - just look how that helped OS/2! -NT - (CRConrad) - (4) - Aug. 6, 2004, 05:28:54 AM EDT
                     What?!? "A better OS2 than OS2"? - (jb4) - (3) - Aug. 12, 2004, 03:18:20 PM EDT
                         Windows 3.1 -> WinOS2 -NT - (deSitter) - (1) - Aug. 12, 2004, 03:22:13 PM EDT
                             OT: Remember MS Sql Server running on OS/2? - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 12, 2004, 10:31:14 PM EDT
                         No, you nitwit, the other way around! - (CRConrad) - Aug. 13, 2004, 06:37:32 AM EDT
         snoball for a front end? - (boxley) - Aug. 5, 2004, 02:18:07 PM EDT
         Re: Mono? - (altmann) - Aug. 5, 2004, 05:48:12 PM EDT
         I'm confused. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Aug. 5, 2004, 06:03:55 PM EDT
             Very observant - (broomberg) - (2) - Aug. 5, 2004, 06:41:33 PM EDT
                 Suggestion - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Aug. 5, 2004, 07:46:37 PM EDT
                     Hmm. - (broomberg) - Aug. 5, 2004, 07:48:22 PM EDT

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