Re: New Era for Unix Dead???

They said at the user conference in Chicago that they would come out with an option to compile even the user interface under Unix. All development would have to be done on Windows though. I doubt *very* much that such an undertaking is viable though. I wouldn't plan on doing it. As Billy sais the application server stuff with no user interface will allways be compiled on Unix or Windows NT if that is your server. And there will be no way you can compile NE3 code with NE1 (on Unix). The differences will be to large. I think we all have to relize the iminent deth of X-Windows for this type of applications. Not that it's anything wrong with it. The problem is it's the end user that desides. If to few of them want to buy it (or applications for it) companies like Informix can't afford to develop for it either. An additional issue here is that it's extremely hard (if even possible) to make an application development system that can utilize *all* functionallity in MS Windows (including ActiveX/OLE) and still be run under X-Windows. If NewEra doesn't support all the MS Windows functionallity Informix will loose out in that market as well (like they to some extent have allready done). If you realy want to do something about this you might try to look into Java. Then it will be neither MS Windows nor X-Windows but something we might call Java Windows. It's still a little early though for major applications. billy@west.co.za (Billy Wheeler) wrote: :> I'm having trouble getting a fix on Informix's plans for New Era for the :> Unix environment. What I've been able to gather is that NE3 is *not* :> going to be ported to Unix. The official statment from my sales rep is :> that NE3 is a development platform for Win95 and Win NT. She couldn't :> get me any info regarding plans to port the new version to Unix. :I understand the following (but don't take my word for it :) : :* If NE >=2.0 ever gets ported to Unix, it will be in the distant future, :possibly on demand only; :* All development will be done on 32bit Windoze; :* Only the application server stuff will be ported for the Unix side, and you :would compile the AS code on the Unix side. :As I understand it, Informix have apparently noticed that there's this thing :called Windoze, which *everyone* is using, and I think they've just given up :on Unix for the desktop... sadly, I have too. It's strange how difficult it is :to convince a user to use Unix/X although there's not even much of a price :difference these days... :-/ :> I've seen a posting that seemed to say that development for Unix :> platforms would be done on Windows, then compiled on the Unix platform. :> Does this sound credible? How would this work? Would one just copy over :> the *.wif, etc. files then do a straight compile? :With version 1.x for Windows, yes. Subsequently, er, not really. :Typically we only port the App Server stuff, no user interface, etc. :> What about version differences? Currently, we are thinking of deploying :> on the SCO platform (we'd love to deploy on UnixWare instead, but there :> isn't a port for it, and I can't get the SCO port to run on it). But the :> SCO version is only NE1. When NE3 comes out, how would I develop on a :> Win PC with version 3 and compile for the SCO environment with version 1? :As I said, I think the intention is that you will deploy your user interface :under Windoze, not Unix/X. :HTH. (And if I'm wrong, could somebody correct me... :) Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org