Forms and Report Migration is Expensive
The average Oracle form of medium complexity takes 2 developers and 2 days to accomplish a manual migration to a modern programming environment like Java. Multiply this by 1000 forms and you see the price and resource commitment skyrocket. Although reports are slightly less complex, they also need to be updated and moved to Java.
Why Migrate?
If you are looking to modernize your application to facilitate the deployment to an ever increasing number of devices, its time to deploy your application on Open Source Java. One major benefit includes the choice of deployment platforms.
If you can automate your migration project, you can save 60% or more! However, if you deploy on Supported Open Source platforms, you can save over 70% on your annual software maintenance costs... and that can really add up, freeing capital and operating funds for new application development.
Some excellent Supported Open Source vendors include: Red Hat for operating system and middleware, EnterpriseDB for database and Actuate for reporting. Some refer to this business model as Commercial Open Source.
A lot of companies who have Oracle technology platforms are faced with escalating costs and antiquated applications. Oracle's Statement of Direction indicates that they themselves are migrating all of their internally developed applications to Java technologies and Oracle is encouraging their customers to do the same.
The question is not IF, but WHEN organizations will migrate their older Forms & Reports based applications.
What are your plans?
