Re: Fourgen Case Tools and Accounting

Shaun Mumford (smumford.@harare.iafrica.com) wrote: : I have looked at Fourgen as a product to develop with because of the : Case tools and the core accounting applications available. : Any comments on its use in real sites ? : What other options are there that provide a basic product with source : and a controlled development environment. I use Fourgen Forms CASE Tool only, so I can't say anything on the accounting applications. Our team have used Forms for developing information system for large goverment office. I don't say Forms is a bad product. It's a nice little private world. It has nice features, good libraries, code generator, some bugs too ;-) Any part of this tool supports other parts of it, but doesn't support anything else. We got into troubles, when we wanted to implement more complicated application structure and hit the limits of the tool. (We have implemented more than 100 interconected modules.) My conclusion is Forms CASE is good tool for (relatively) small applications or for use as a quick and dirty prototyping tool. Finally, I didn't see any other product with its capabilities (maybe Tim Schaefer's tools - email:tschaefe@gate.net http://www.gate.net/~tschaefe). I wait for NewEra's character-based terminal classes (I hope it will be released soon). Good luck, -- Zdeno Miklas SOFTEC spol. s r. o. e-mail: ash@softec.sk Kutuzovova 23 phone : 42-7-273805 ext.128 831 03 Bratislava fax : 42-7-272537 SLOVAKIA