Oracle Forms is Alive and Kicking! Oracle Forms Modernization Day

This past Tuesday, I had the privilege of running the Oracle Forms user group conference. It all started when Grant Ronald (Oracle Forms and JDeveloper product manager) and I got to talking at Open World 2011. We were saying how Oracle Forms developers are a huge community but  the forgotten people. Every Oracle conference of recent years has been filled with sessions on ADF, SOA, APEX, BPEL and all other 3 letter curse words (OOPS  I mean buzz words). But for the past few years Forms has dropped off the “session titles” map.

Well we decided then and there to make a conference specifically geared to the Oracle Forms developers community. With the help of Eyal Shani, CTO of Oracle Israel and Ami Aharonovitch, head of the Israel Oracle User Group (our heroes), we set out to prove that the Forms development community is a force to be reckoned with.

And rest assured, there were plenty of nay sayers:  “No one still develops in forms”,  “You won’t get more than 50 people” – Sound familiar? Well, this Tuesday, I got to say those three precious words: “TOLD YOU SO! ” With nearly 200  developers who attended, the event was a rousing success.

ilOUG and Oracle Developers Day Jan 24, 2012 – Don’t Miss It !

I am very excited to invite you all to a incredible event. As we all know its been a while since Oracle Israel has addressed the Oracle development community. Every year we all look at Oracle Week and other conference and feel left out of the party since no sessions address Oracle Forms developer. I vowed to change this last year when I took over the Israeli User Group forum for Oracle Forms and Reports. And this year Eyal Shani CTO of Oracle Israel and Grant Ronald product manager of Oracle development tools have come together to help me bring power back to the Oracle development community. Oracle Israel has taken it upon themselves as a mission this year to help all customers upgrade to Oracle Forms 10-11g. And they are already putting money where there promises are. They are sponsoring this one of a kind event at the Herods Hotel in Tel-Aviv on Jan 24, 2012 and brining in the world expert on Oracle Forms to talk to us and share future visions for the Oracle developer community.

ממריאים לענן: Oracle World 2011

“מי לא ניסה לשדרג את אורקל פורמס  לג’אווה או עולם הSOA שירים את ידו…
מבין מי שניסה לשדרג – מי שהצליח שיקום!אף אחד לא קם. בינתיים.”

הציטוט הזה נאמר ע”י גרנט רונלד, מנהל מוצר אורקל פורמס בהרצאה שנשא בשבוע אורקל שהתקיים החודש בסן פרנסיסקו. כולנו רוצים לעשות מודרניזציה של אורקל ורוצים לשלב את המערכת הוותיקה והאמינה הזאת עם מערכות  קלוואד אס.או.איי ג’אווה ואחרות באירגון, אבל לא מצליחים. מערכת אורקל פורמס היא “קופסה שחורה” שפועלת נהדר, אבל התממשקות עם המערכת דורשת חשיפה של התוכן של הקופסה השחורה וזה כבר תהליך יקר, מתיש ורצוף קשיים שסיכויי ההצלחה שלו מועטים.