Stuttgart/Troy (MI) 12/03/2024 – Forms 14 is coming. That is certain. Whether in 2024 or early 2025 is hardly important after all the many announcements and delays.

Forms 14 is coming and for some customers it is a blessing that the many pleas, requests, petitions and visits to Oracle HQ have ultimately led to success. You can continue to develop and operate your tried-and-tested platform beyond the current end of support in 2026 until at least December 2032. At least that is the status quo today, in December 2024. A further extension beyond 2032 is at least possible. But perhaps the demand in eight years’ time will be more manageable.

For others, this new release and the associated long support period (five years of Premier Support plus three years of Extended Support) offers enough time to plan a migration and tackle it without too much time pressure.

The Oracle Forms community is still large and strong

Oracle has listened to its customers and made an important pro-customer decision, even though Oracle is developing its new systems with APEX and no longer with Forms. For this reason, a decision in favor of Forms is anything but self-evident.

The tireless efforts of the large and active Forms customer base and the advocates in various committees and user groups, above all the DOAG, the German Oracle User Group, have made an impression on those responsible at Oracle. Who knows what the situation would look like without this ‘friendly pressure’ from the base.

PITSS is ready – you too!

Forms 14 is coming and the PITSS team is prepared and has done its homework. The PITSS.CON toolset is up to date, can process all Forms versions – even those that have long been running under the flag of Sustaining Support – knows the new functionalities of Forms 14 and can generate Forms 14.

To get a first impression of how Forms 14 looks and feels for your current Forms environment, we will offer a “Forms 14 Live Experience Workshop” as soon as Forms 14 is available. Here we will use one of your Forms applications to demonstrate our approach, including analyzing the current Forms modules, cleaning up any code deficits and generating your application as a Forms 14 application. All live. Step by step. Comprehensible and impressive.

This is on a small scale what we mean by “Regain Control” on a large scale. Regain control of your Forms application, purify and stabilize your Forms environment before you take the step to Forms 14. Our tools, our PITSS method and our many years of experience in Forms upgrades and Forms migration offer you the security you need to bring even large and complex Forms environments up to the new software standard.

Or do you need support to set up a test environment for Forms 14 in your data center? Or in the cloud? Just let us know. Don’t hesitate to call or contact us. You’re not bothering us, we’re looking forward to it!

Oracle Forms 14 is coming and the entire PITSS team is ready!