Re: Informix

Andy Kent wrote: >- Perhaps Informix's greatest product albatross was NewEra, a >disastrous 4gl/ Java hybrid which, had it worked properly, would have >brought their tools strategy into the 1990s. Touted as a simple 4gl >replacement, I never did manage to find an Informix consultant who >could show me what it put in place of an INPUT statement. > > New Era was a great language. There was some clever guys that discover that Informix will be rich if the INPUT, DISPLAY, MENUS do not be part of the language selling much more licences. I built 4 applications in New Era . One of them still works. It was an object oriented 4gl. Great aproach if compatible with all 4gl code. New Era generates C/C++ not java. There was an aproach to Java called "data director for java", but it was a diferent product than New Era. 4gl for windows was another Informix flop. It was to slow for that time computer(s). It was another project leadership problem. Aparently it was a separated product copied from standard 4gl and evolved separatley. Somebody knows what hapenned to Quick Step ? A 4gl report generator. Good tool, but someone tell me that sources was lost. Is this true ? S'rgio sending to informix-list