Comments on: Some positive drag-and-drop experience http://blog.rayapps.com/2008/09/24/some-positive-drag-and-drop-experience/ About Ruby, Oracle, Mac and others Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:18:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JulesLt http://blog.rayapps.com/2008/09/24/some-positive-drag-and-drop-experience/#comment-1228 JulesLt Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:31:51 +0000 http://rayapps.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-1228 I think you're right about the focus on internal web apps - my MD is constantly asking why application development isn't as simple as it was with Forms (he started out as a developer back with Forms 2.0 and I think stopped around Forms 2.3!). On the other hand, he also wants things that look nice. On the BI side - you should take a look at our Dashboard product (linked in the website link) - it was started by our BOB guy, because he hated using Business Objects. It's a similar idea to Oracle's BI and Dashboard (I will be fair and say that in the 5 years since we started, Oracle have caught up a long way!) but it's got a nice architecture (you can pull the XML and SQL underlying any of the charts with a right-click, uses a local in-memory database to reduce the query burden on the main DB server, and all the usual any ODBC source type stuff). I think you’re right about the focus on internal web apps – my MD is constantly asking why application development isn’t as simple as it was with Forms (he started out as a developer back with Forms 2.0 and I think stopped around Forms 2.3!). On the other hand, he also wants things that look nice.

On the BI side – you should take a look at our Dashboard product (linked in the website link) – it was started by our BOB guy, because he hated using Business Objects. It’s a similar idea to Oracle’s BI and Dashboard (I will be fair and say that in the 5 years since we started, Oracle have caught up a long way!) but it’s got a nice architecture (you can pull the XML and SQL underlying any of the charts with a right-click, uses a local in-memory database to reduce the query burden on the main DB server, and all the usual any ODBC source type stuff).

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