Group:Oracle Forms

From the FSF High Priority Projects list:

We need a compatible free software replacement for Oracle Forms that works with free SQL databases. This software would allow people currently using the proprietary Oracle DB to more easily migrate to a free software database system, without having to rewrite all of their user-interface applications.

Proposed projects

GNU Enterprise

GNU Enterprise (GNUe) is a meta-project which is part of the overall GNU Project. GNUe's goal is to develop enterprise-class data-aware applications as Free software. GNUe is itself comprised of several subprojects: Developer Tools, ERP Packages and the Community.

Kexi

Kexi is an integrated data management application, designed to fill the gap between spreadsheets and database solutions requiring more sophisticated development. Kexi can be used for designing and implementing databases, data inserting and processing, and performing queries.

The impetus for developing Kexi came from a noticeable lack of applications having the features of Microsoft Access, FoxPro, Oracle Forms or FileMaker while at the same time being powerful, inexpensive, open-standards-driven and sufficiently portable.

Kexi is a part of the KDE project, and runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris and MS Windows operating systems. It can run with any window manager or desktop (e.g. KDE, GNOME).

More information (Wikipedia).

Comparison

	GNU Enterprise	Kexi
Actively maintained and developed?	?	Yes, since 2003
Stable release?	?	Yes, 1.6.x
Organization behind the project	? GNUe	KDE e.V.
Main programming language	Python	C++
Licensing	GPL	(L)GPL

People working on the project

• --johns 13:06, 8 December 2008 (EST)
• GNUe: Alfredo Krieg, 18:15, 2 March 2009 (GMT -6)
• Kexi: Jaroslaw Staniek --jstaniek (staniek @ kde . org)