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Why Oracle? [message #538269] Thu, 05 January 2012 01:37 Go to next message
kame
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Dear Experts.

I am developing a project in Oracle I want to know if some one ask that "why you selected oracle to develop software"
instead of VB, .Net etc.

what should be my answer?

regards
Re: Why Oracle? [message #538272 is a reply to message #538269] Thu, 05 January 2012 01:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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I have never selected and never will Oracle products to develop software but most of the time (always?) you do not choose your boss or client dictates it.

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Michel
Re: Why Oracle? [message #538277 is a reply to message #538272] Thu, 05 January 2012 01:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
kame
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Ok.
if we compare oracle features with .net etc
is there any comparison?
Re: Why Oracle? [message #538278 is a reply to message #538277] Thu, 05 January 2012 02:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Wait a minute!

You are developing a project using Oracle, so it must be you who chose it (unless it was - as Michel said - your boss or client). As you didn't specify it, I *suppose* it was you who chose it.

If that's so, how come YOU ask US why you did that? I have no idea, you chose it (instead of VB, .Net etc.). Why did you choose it?
Re: Why Oracle? [message #538280 is a reply to message #538277] Thu, 05 January 2012 02:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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kame wrote on Thu, 05 January 2012 08:59
Ok.
if we compare oracle features with .net etc
is there any comparison?

That question makes no sense to me.
Oracle is relational database management system.
VB is procedural programming language.
.NET is a software framework.
It would make sense, if you compared Oracle to other RDBMSs (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Informix, ...).
The same with other tools - why are you using VB and not Java? Why .NET and not some framework based on Java?
Now you are comparing totally different tools used for different task.

Either your application needs to work with data, so it has to store it (RDBMSs are most common/convenient way) or not and you do not need Oracle or any other RDBMS.
Re: Why Oracle? [message #538281 is a reply to message #538280] Thu, 05 January 2012 02:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Littlefoot
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Flyboy,

this question was originally located in Forms forum (someone moved it over here), so I believe that question should have been "Why Oracle Forms and not VB, .Net, Java, whatever?". Data is probably stored in an Oracle database, and he chose Forms to manipulate that data.
Re: Why Oracle? [message #538282 is a reply to message #538281] Thu, 05 January 2012 02:39 Go to previous message
flyboy
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@Littlefoot: Thank you for clarification.
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