Re: New Era for Unix Dead???

Cosmo Lee 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. > > We need some answers to help decide how we will deploy. > > 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? > > 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? > > Thanx. Any help is appreciated. > > --Cosmo Lee You should investigate the new JAB/WEB stuff. This is another interface I have a chance to evaluate, and it runs on UNIX. First impressions are it's very good, and has the data base connectivity stuff. Since the paradigm is changing to a web-based application environment for darn near everything, you may want to investigate it. ( I just looked at Progress as well, however portability is the key. ) The JAM/Web 1.0 stuff is downloadable however the latest offering of 2.0 is something you're going to have to buy, and the downloads are I believe for Win95/WinNT. ( www.jyacc.com -> prolific is their new name now ) My one key benchmark for <development> would be "how simple is it to connect events to the objects put on a form?". Jam is not exactly intuitive, but the help is on-line, and appears to be an enterprise-level product. I can't tell you how fast it runs--they just installed it, and we've been playing with the UNIX version. Haven't tried the Win95 version, and can't tell you how it compares to New Era. Keep in mind Universal Server is geared for the web, and it's coming, so your tools and apps should follow. Hope this helps you in your search... -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// Motorola Pager Factory tschaefe@paging.mot.com (6 6) Boynton Beach, FL, USA, Earth -------------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o-------------------------------- Internet: mailto://tschaefe@shadow.net WWW: http://www.shadow.net/~tschaefe Liberty: http://www.lp.org Informix FAQ: http://www.iiug.org Celebrating seven wonderful years in Florida --------------------------------------------------------------------------------