From: kennedy-down_with_spammers@no_spam.comcast.net   
      
   "vincent delft"  wrote in message   
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   > Hello,   
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   > I must set-up an application with an Oracle Database running on Unix and a   
   > GUI running on Windows 2000/XP machines.   
   > The size of the DB is about 5GB.   
   > The application will have about 1000 users and about 200 concurrent users   
   > connected via a WAN.   
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   > My management propose the combination Oracle - ODBC - Visual Basic.   
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   > Does this will be stable and reliable enough ?   
   > Must I propose an another architectur ? (PowerBuilder ?, Java ?, ...)   
   > Does web based application can be cheaper (to build and maintain) than VB   
   ?   
   >   
   > Thanks for your feedbacks.   
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   If you have to go with VB I would use Oracle's Ole Objects.  Fast, easy to   
   use bind variables, easy to code, supports all the native types.   
   Jim   
      
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