The Quality of Oracle Developer

Question

The following is the body of an email I sent into Oracle Technet.
Does anyone else agree?
I would like to take this time to talk about
Oracle Developer. I am using version 6 (with patches) and I
unfortunately have nothing but bad things to say about this
product.
I have used other development tools, and I have never seen so
many unexceptable bugs and features (that exist from poor design)
like I have seen while using this product. Reports that print
with undesired and sporadic results. Built-Ins that do not work
as intended. Deployment that is unreliable. GUI design that is
poor and non-standard (using the Microsoft Window standards --
which are industry-acceptable standards). Form and canvas
navigation that is unreliable.
Most software vendors would not let a product of this quality out
of the alpha stage, and what is truly disappointing is that
Oracle, who is the developer of a fabulous database, would risk
tarnishing their image by releasing what my colleagues and I
refer to as "crap". What makes this product even more of a
tragedy is the fact that is probably the most expensive
development product on the market today.
Being an Information Technology professional, many companies
value my opinions and toolset recommendations. Oracle Developer
would be on the top of my "DON'T BUY" list. For the company's
sake, I truly hope that this e-mail does NOT merely end up in the
area that many individuals refer to as the "circular file".
Thank you for your time.
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Answer 1

Ben Klein (guest) wrote:
: The following is the body of an email I sent into Oracle
Technet.
: Does anyone else agree?
: I would like to take this time to talk about
: Oracle Developer. I am using version 6 (with patches) and I
: unfortunately have nothing but bad things to say about this
: product.
: I have used other development tools, and I have never seen so
: many unexceptable bugs and features (that exist from poor
design)
: like I have seen while using this product. Reports that print
: with undesired and sporadic results. Built-Ins that do not
work
: as intended. Deployment that is unreliable. GUI design that is
: poor and non-standard (using the Microsoft Window standards --
: which are industry-acceptable standards). Form and canvas
: navigation that is unreliable.
: Most software vendors would not let a product of this quality
out
: of the alpha stage, and what is truly disappointing is that
: Oracle, who is the developer of a fabulous database, would
risk
: tarnishing their image by releasing what my colleagues and I
: refer to as "crap". What makes this product even more of a
: tragedy is the fact that is probably the most expensive
: development product on the market today.
: Being an Information Technology professional, many companies
: value my opinions and toolset recommendations. Oracle
Developer
: would be on the top of my "DON'T BUY" list. For the company's
: sake, I truly hope that this e-mail does NOT merely end up in
the
: area that many individuals refer to as the "circular file".
: Thank you for your time.
Ben:
I was starting to think it's just me. With ORACLE being "the"
database for years now, I figured their development tools would
have a little more to offer.
I maintain a contractor-developed web app developed exclusively
with Oracle products - Developer, Web Server, Database, etc. I
find the user interfaces of these products horrible, and their
functionality even worse. Very buggy and unpredictable. Oracle
doesn't seem to realize that MS Windows/NT is the platform they
should concentrate on - maybe send their developers to some MS
schooling to learn proper windows programming techniqes and
standards. Who really cares anymore that their products can be
used across many different platforms? I especially hate the
events used in developing forms. Very hard to understand
exactly what they do or when they're fired.
The reason why I'm on this site today is that I destroyed my
8.0.3 database by putting Developer 6.0 on it! Now tech-support
(which we prabably paid thousands for) Oracle tells me that the
two can't co-exist on the same machine.
I'm with you - I'd steer any developer away from any Oracle
product in a heartbeat, except maybe for their core database.
Jeff Whippo
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