Re: Informix to resell 4Js as Informix Dynamic 4GL

Peter Lancashire wrote: > Terry Lawlor told the UK Informix User Group (Infuse) yesterday that > Informix will announce to day that it is to have a 4GL for Windows > product. It turns out to be 4Js. Apparently Informix will support it > themselves. Available from November. Sounds like a ringing endorsement > and a recognition that 4GL is not dead. > > Interestingly, a big new OLTP project was described for some big outfit > that uses IDS and 4GL. Apparently Informix recommends 4GL for > mission-critical OLTP systems. Confirms my suspicion that client-server > is an unreliable rats nest of suppliers wriggling off the hook. > -- > Peter Lancashire > Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc It's official (see http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980604/informix_1.html) and its name is Dynamic 4GL Availability in Q3 1998 and no prices mentionend yet. I think 1998 will be called the year of the 4GL Revival -- V+K Relational Solutions mailto:tvarnas@compulink.gr Deligiorgi 26 mailto:tvarnas@orbit.de 546 42 Thessaloniki Voice: +30-31-820270 Greece Fax: +30-31-865463