Re: Informix: Please buy Borland

Posted in 1997

Peter Wiley — Sun, 16 Mar 1997 07:54:42 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <3328B069.2A34@netime.com> Bret Lowry <lowry@netime.com> writes: [snip] >themselves, they obviously don't understands Windows programming! As far >as Access goes, it runs circles around Newera. Maybe; I haven't used NE3. However, Access sucks, big-time. Try fetching 30K rows with around 40 columns into Access and see what happens. Dies, big-time, on the machines I've used (Win95 with 64Mb RAM). IMHO, there isn't yet any GUI client-side tool I'd bet a business on. Delphi comes closest. Peter Wiley