>>>"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.
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>>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...
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>Quite possible. That was the feeling, the engine is strong, but the visual tool is bad - except they didn't say why was it bad. I think Srdjan may have a story or two, IIRC such a thing happened in his neighborhood.

Hi Dragan

I am porting my stuff to Oracle backend nowdays.

Would not spread much of stories but just say that our VFP application outperformed Oracle platform born app of simillar specs
on multiple accounts. Functionality, Usability, Flexibility, productivity, cost effectivness. More or less everyting.
Fox rocks on all accounts ;)

But all that is from user experience and developer productivity standpoint.
Now Oracle is Oracle, more or less everybody agrees that it is the best database platform out there.
If there was not for VFP/EOL announcement, I would probably use Oracle just as reliable data storage and nothing else, but as
things are going, I will be reserching/moving on Oracle bound dev. tools as well.

Did not like idea of using Oracle at first, but now as things are going,
expanding Oracle 'footprint' is good on multiple accounts ;)