Re: Need your opinions.

> Informix gurus, > My company has several 4GL for UNIX applications (written by me when > I worked for a programming firm). We do not have development, but I did > bring the source code with me. Recently, we moved from character-based > terminals to PC's on each desk. For now, people using the UNIX stuff > do it through a terminal emulator. > > We want all future development done in GUI. We will continue to need > bug fixes in the UNIX code (I'm not perfect). So I'm left with at least > the following choices: > > 1) Buy 4GL/Windows. Port old applications to 4GL/Windows and use it > for bug fixes. Develop new applications with 4GL/Windows. > > 2) Buy development (1 user) for the UNIX box. Do bug fixes with that. > Develop new applications with something like PowerBuilder, New Era, HST, > Uniface, or whatever. I have experience with none of them. > > Which would you recommend? If number 2, then which dev tool? > > Background: 25-30 PC's. RS/6000 model 360 running AIX 3.2.5. > Ethernet. Want to keep databases on UNIX. SE engine. I'm the only > developer. > > Please give me your biased opinions. > > Thanks, > Rodney Gardner > Medicap Pharmacies, Inc. > rodney@worf.infonet.net Rodney, 4GL/GX and 4GL/Windows are not fully-functional Windows products, merely runners that allow you to run character Informix-4GL applications under Windows. You would not get any true GUI functionality. The most desirable route would be Informix-NewEra, partly because of its superior functionality and partly because of its migration path. Well, for *some* of your code: be prepared to have to have quite a re-work done on your existing character-based code; many of the things that you could do in 4GL simply don't have an equivalent in the Windows environment. You just have to re-write them, 'the GUI way'. akent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andy Kent) -------------------------------------