Number of Oracle Forms customers

Hello everyone, I am helping an SI migrate Oracle forms apps to ADF and Java apps. We wanted to know the number of Oracle forms customers, preferrably by version #, to understand the size of the opportunity.
I would appreciate help.
Thanks,
Raj

That is Oracles' secret. They wouldn't give that away, now would they? If you look at the forum facts (3.2 million views), you can be sure that there are quite a lot of Forms customers.

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