Oracle Forms and Reports RoadmapPITSS can easily walk your applications to 10gAre you concerned about your Oracle Forms and Reports applications because Oracle has stopped supporting Developer Suite? Don’t be. Though Oracle hasn’t done a very good job of communication this, Oracle Developer Suite (Oracle Forms and Reports) is still going strong. Forms and Reports, which works better with the Oracle Database than any other UI, is supported (v10g Release 2) and will continue to be supported by Oracle.According to their support matrix, Oracle has planned to support Oracle Forms and Reports through 2017. Here’s the information they have shared with us:  What does this mean to you? Step 1, you can protect your investment and company by getting on a supported web interface. Step 2, you can continue to maintain you application with your existing resources. Step 3, begin new development in a different technology if that is your desire. Because you will be using web forms, they can interoperate with other technologies like ADF, Java, .net, APEX. You can also offer some of the functionality built into your forms to other applications with SOA enabled functionalities. This three step approach is Oracle’s Forms and Reports Roadmap. And the approach is recommended by Gartner, an independent third party research company. (Click to here to view their article) And it is the easiest and cheapest way to protect your organization, retain your investment, and stay on path with Oracle’s technology stack.  Why use PITSS.con to do this? We are the only tool available that completes and assists you with these three steps. Our Migration functionality in PITSS.con will get you migrated in days instead of months or years. Our Application Analysis and Maintenance & Development functionalities will help support your ongoing development projects. And the Application Engineering functionalities will assist you in opening your Oracle Forms logic to web with its SOA Enabling technologies. If you are on unsupported software, here’s what Jan Carlin (Principal Product Manager, Oracle Forms) has to say: "If you are using unsupported versions of Oracle Forms (earlier than 10.1.2 for non E-Business Suite users) you are no longer benefiting from Oracle's regular patches, including security related patches. It is possible that your application could therefore be unnecessarily vulnerable to attacks as a result. Another consideration is that many corporate policies as well as statutory requirements mandate that software used in a production environment must be eligible for security related patching."
Jan Carlin, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Forms
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