Re: What development application

Richard Stanford wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, David Chamberlain wrote: > > > I am investigating Informix for my companies DB needs. > > Fantastic. IMO there is no better RDBMS around. I'm spending the week in > Oracle DBA training (and wondering who I ticked off to deserve it) ... and > have NO idea why its so popular. Some of the way it works just makes me > shudder. Some is decent, yes, but most of it? Of course, that's just my > opinion and I'm getting off the track here. > > > Is Visual Basic an acceptable programming environment? > > IMO as a developer, no. This opinion has nothing to do with databases, > though. What are you tryingh to develop? > > > How about Borland C++? What > > development application would you recommend. > > For goofy shareware or 5 million lines of enterprise code? > > > I would appreciate any words of advice. > > How 'bout some more information? > > -Richard We are a small company (< 300 people). Most of out IT department revolves around Electronic Data Interchange with our customers. We recieve electronic Purchase Orders and return electronic Advanced Ship Notices, for example. We are an International Freight Forwarder. Most of our applications involve the following: 1. Receive EDI data of some sort. We have a powerful EDI translator that will translate this data into the DB. 2. Manipulate, add information, etc to the data. Here is where we need a development environment. 3. Send the value added data out to a customer. Again, we use an EDI translator for that. My desire is for some of the following. 1. Rapid (really rapid) application development. 2. Connection between the application and data base should be as fast and painless as possible (read, I would prefer to not have to use ODBC) 3. Robust, stable applications Thanks for your input. David Chamberlain Oregon International Airfreight, Inc.