Re: Informix vs. Fox

Dragi Raos 4-MATE Information Engineering (http://www.4mate.hr) Zagreb, Croatia Mike Ripley <mike.ripley@excelsis.co.uk> wrote in article <7ifRvAA5TXezMAx9@excelsis.co.uk>... > In article <01bc5b51$a0eb8740$68e6e495@kunz>, Reiner Kunz > <Reiner.Kunz@pr-kunz2.M.eunet.de> writes > >Hi Mario, > > > >do you really have to compare Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 against Informix? Hmm, > >FoxPro is a truly desktop database (and is doing this job quite well). It has no > >standalone sql server inside the box but you can use FoxPro as a frontend to > >Informix if you need a better graphical user interface and hate to program 4GL > >apps. Personally, I would prefer FoxPro as frontend tool. Using it as main > >database in a company depends from what you want to do with it. If you have > >hundreds of user needing access to an address database I would take Informix as > >backend (with FoxPro as frontend). Giving ten secretaries access to a database > >is no problem with FoxPro alone. > > > >And last but not least, Visual FoxPro is a developer tool. You can use it for ad > >hoc queries but I wouldn't giv it to my secretary. Excel, Access, Crystal Report > >is better for this task. > > > > Use NewEra by Informix as your GUI front end! > -- > Mike Ripley Even better, use JAM or Prolifics as front end! (http://www.prolifics.com) -- Dragi Raos 4-MATE Information Engineering (http://www.4mate.hr) Zagreb, Croatia