I am very curious about this. Because since all known development tools like Java, Ruby, PhP are open-source (Even MS .Net development tools are open-source), meaning free, I am wondering how much purchase and support cost an Oracle shop has to dish out to create applications in Oracle Forms.
Suppose we have a Oracle shop with 10 Oracle Forms & Reports developers how much cost do we have to incur to develop applications in Forms & Reports. I mean the licensing and support cost for Forms/Report per year? Say for for Forms 11g or 12c or even an earlier version it does not matter. Does anybody have an idea?
I just like to know what the costs involved in using the Forms and Reports Builders when everybody else just use free development tools.
Additionally since we HAVE TO use an Oracle DB if we develop applications in Oracle Forms & Reports what is cost of a the entry level Oracle DB (I think it's SE or SE2) when it comes to licensing and support for say a 100 user group license (not named-user)? How much approximately (without any additional stuff like DB management tools) would it cost for the DB licensing & support for a year for the most entry level Oracle DB version?