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Conference orarep::nomahs::rally

Title:Oracle Rally
Notice:Rally Kits moved from CLT to Wilbry
Moderator:OOTOOL::CRAIG
Created:Fri Mar 23 1990
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2942
Total number of notes:14664

2941.0. "RALLY down the toilet !?!" by ORAREP::SNOFS1::SCOTCHFORDP () Mon Jun 02 1997 03:13

    Hi,
    
    I'm an OLD Rally Buff, yeah few of us still around, but I play with
    other stuff, anyway, where's Rally heading (down the toilet?) is there
    a future version that is visual with multi db connect driver
    capability.
    
    This might sound strange but I love Rally, but its all but dead in
    Australia, anyone out there heard anything about futures?
    
    Thanx
    
    
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2941.1Not down, just relaxingNOVA::SMITHIDon't understate or underestimate Rdb!Mon Jun 02 1997 12:5516
While we do love RALLY (I have been associated with RALLY since X1.0 :-), and
it does have a great architecture it would require significant engineering
investment to keep up with trends in 4GL's such as web and JAVA.

The direction today (and this was discussed last year at Oracle Openworld) is
to continue to support existing applications (so there will be ECO releases of
RALLY) and to provide a conversion tool from RALLY to Developer/2000 (this is
a consulting service I believe).  This ensures investment protection and
enables the use of a new generation of client/server applications.  e.g. It
was recently announced that the forms in Developer/2000 can be used for Web
applications.

As for the explicit question "visual with multi db connect driver".  Rally
already does multiple database connects.

Ian
2941.2VisualORAREP::SNOFS1::SCOTCHFORDPTue Jun 03 1997 05:127
    Ian, my question may have been too hasty, the nuts of it was 
    will Rally go any further and evolve along the lines of other
    Visual tools e.g. VB, Developer 2000,Delphi et al. 
    
    In essence you answered the question.