Thursday, September 15, 2005
Good News - Bad News
Just saw via orablogs that Scott Spendolini has moved on. HTMLDB is, in my view anyway, probably the must have new feature that Oracle have released in the recent past. Apologies to Sue Harper but I'd much rather folk used HTMLDB than JDeveloper for almost all normal size developments. This is partly a healthy disregard for java/j2ee, but partly a suggestion that HTMLDB has nearly all most normal organisations would want from an in-house dev tool. For those interested in terms I'm approximately defining normal organisation as <5000 employees, single country of operation and maybe <$500m turnover. People serious about data, but those that tend to buy business apps and do in-house development for custom apps only. (alternatively people like my employer though Im not always tempted to use the word normal to describe them).
Anyway I trust that this works well for Scott and he benefits from the change of emphasis. I hope that HTMLDB doesn't suffer too much from his absence.
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Anyway I trust that this works well for Scott and he benefits from the change of emphasis. I hope that HTMLDB doesn't suffer too much from his absence.
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I was a bit disappointed to hear that, too, but hopefully Scott will keep up the good work on his blog.
Cheers,
Doug
Cheers,
Doug
Scott being an HTML DB Product Manager in Oracle leaving Oracle to start a consulting firm based on HTML DB development really provides a good indication of Oracle's future support and plans for HTML DB. It looks really good for HTML DB.
I am so glad that there are other people out there who believe like I do in HTMLDB and think it is one of the best products to come out of Oracle. We are one of the very early adopters and one of the first reference sites for Oracle.
We are currently migrating a lot of Forms to HTMLDB. But my best win was with an oil company where we replaced a Java/J2EE with a faster and more functional HTMLDB app developed in a quarter of the time. The fact is we are building as complex applications in HTMLDB as in Forms (of course we had to sacrifice a little bit on rich GUI functionality).
I wish Scott all the best and am sad to see one of best resources on new developments go.
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We are currently migrating a lot of Forms to HTMLDB. But my best win was with an oil company where we replaced a Java/J2EE with a faster and more functional HTMLDB app developed in a quarter of the time. The fact is we are building as complex applications in HTMLDB as in Forms (of course we had to sacrifice a little bit on rich GUI functionality).
I wish Scott all the best and am sad to see one of best resources on new developments go.
