A forthcoming report from Butler Group has found that the new
Oracle 9i Developer Suite, introduced last week, falls short of
being a fully integrated development suite.
Oracle 9i Developer Suite is the first tools product from the
database giant to offer an integrated development environment
(IDE). But Ian Charlesworth, an analyst at Butler Group, believes
Oracle is still playing catch-up when compared to the integrated
Microsoft Visual Studio .net development suite.
Charlesworth said the Oracle tool is not fully integrated and
scored badly in terms of supporting new programming methodologies
such as model-based development. "Modelling is a critical component
of software development but the 9i Designer tool does not fully
support the UML standard."
Oracle marketing manager Chris Ward refuted Butler's findings.
"While 9i Designer provides Case [modelling] for Oracle Forms
applications, we have an XML modeller in our JDeveloper Java tool,"
he said.
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