>>>>Why ?
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>>>Years ago, I heard of a team who spent four years playing with that tool and got a nearly functional first set of forms. The estimate was that just a couple more years were needed to get most of the app ready for a beta.
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>>Interesting. A friend of mine worked with Oracle forms. He says "It was so so easy"...
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>"Pošto kupio, poto prodao" (for how much bought, for as much sold), i.e. just telling it as I heard it. Haven't seen the thing in my life or elsewhere - and maybe both stories are true, that it is easy to do the stuff it's made for, but very hard to make it do other stuff, just like any framework out there. Also possible that the story I heard is old, and that the newer versions are better.

Maybe your friends wanted make complicated forms and they couldn't success that. Because Oracle forms are so primitive. It's strong with PL-SQL but weak with visual things. Maybe they mean that...