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In article <3rur8o$alo@homer.alpha.net> tar@ems001.emsystem.com "Thomas A Reminga" writes: > I wonder whether Informix will let NewEra die on the vine like they > did with Wingz/Hyperscript. The key to frontend development tools > is having many - many programmers coding with the product and > creating more add-in tools. Look at VB. Informix would do well > by "giving" the single user version (bundled with a MS Windows SE engine) > away, and getting people to use it. My opinion is Informix doesn't know > how to compete in the PC market and if it thinks it isn't in that > market, they have wasted a lot of time and resources with NewEra. > Oh dear, this strikes a raw nerve. We started using Informix using the Dos 2.10 range, and Inet to a Sun server. There was lots wrong with that whole Dos port, but Informix didn't seem to care. We kept logging bugs, and in the end it kinda dawned on us that Informix weren't able to care. It was as if the man who wrote it had left, and taken all the sources too. Yes, we have an application written in Wingz, which we ported to HSTools 1.0 and now find that the database interface is incompatible with HSTools 1.10. It seems none of us ever learn. -- =-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-= Andy Lennard andy@kontron.demon.co.uk Kontron Instruments Ltd, Blackmoor Lane, Phone: +44 1923 245991 Croxley Centre, Fax: +44 1923 412211 Watford, Herts, UK. WD1 8XQ =-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=