Re: Choose New Era???

On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Nils Myklebust wrote: } If you want to add to the confusion see the 4 pressreleases from Mon } Mar 31 at http://biz.yahoo.com/news/ifmx.html } } "INFORMIX-Data Director for Java (formerly INFORMIX-JWorks)" } } And there is "Data Director" for Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, C++, } Forte, Seagate Crystal Reports and others (but no mention of Delphi - } I assume Informix didn't want Borlands name in their pressrelease as } it isn't exactly the best of names right now). } } There isn't a single line of explanation in the four press releases } that I can find of what "Data Director" realy is. All I can deduce is } that it "seems" to be an overriding name for a group of tools and } middleware "things". } It looks a lot like the technology they aquired from CenterView a } short while ago. At the time it looked like they had something } available for Visual Basic, while the rest is "in development". } } I can find no information at the Informix web site yet, not even the } press releases. } } Anybody got a clue what this is all about? } } } Cosmo Lee <cosmo@echonyc.com> wrote: } } :OK, I just got the newest copy of "Informix Times". They are talking } :about JWorks as if it is a shipping product: "JWorks delivers } :drag-and-drop Java development component". "Delivers"? Doesn't the use } :of that word imply that it's doing it *now*, i.e.: it's available to } :users? } } Well, even Informix seems to be willing to stretch language a bit... A BIT DID you say !!!! Having listened to their sales people ..... I'd have to say they stretch things out quite a damn bit !!! } } :Then there's the announcement about New Era 3.0, wherein the product is } :described as a "solution for building...client/server, } :Web-enabled...applications." "Web-enabled"? Is there a Web component } :to version 3.0 of New Era? } } Hardly, but anything can be web enabled. I can run a 4GL program via a } Java terminal emulator running as an aplet - web enabled? } } :Previously JWorks was sounding like New Era with Java code. Now they're } :making New Era sound like JWorks. } : } :This is adding more to my suspicion that New Era and JWorks are going to } :be folded into one product. It sounds like at the user level they look } :the same. Do they just modify New Era's GUI builder to spit out Java } :instead of C++ code? } : } :And if there will be JWorks, what reasons will there be to choose New } :Era? } } The language, particularly if you have allready written a lot of code. } Remember everything else about NewEra (or any other similar tool) is a } small part compared to the programming language as soon as you have } built a serious application. } } JWorks and NewEra will and must be quite separate products, at least } for some time to come. One day they may have a NewEra - the language - } to Java translator. At that time you may properly ask for the need for } NewEra. } } It isn't quite clear to me however to what extent Informix wants } JWorks to be a self sufficient and complete development tool. This } particularly comes up with the new "Embrace" philosophy of Informix } where JWorks *may* become an add on to other Java tools. } } Check the press releases. } } } 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 }