Re: What Front End do you use with Informix?
Prolifics from Prolifics Inc. is one of the best tools we found for developing enterprise class applications. Take a look at Prolifics' web site at: http://www.prolifics.com All the best, Damir Kropf dkropf@4mate.hr Billy Wheeler wrote: > > On 5 Jun 98 at 17:03, Nils Myklebust wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998 10:24:19 -0700, "news" <x@x.com> wrote: > > > > >We have developed a very complex database and have recently migrated over to > > >Informix (NT) from MS Access. > > > > > >I'm still using MS Access as a front end because of all the nice data > > >manipulation tools that come with it but I'm running into all sorts of > > >problems with the ODBC translation of my SQL commands. (Mostly with sorting > > >data by character based columns). > > > > > >Is there a more compatible front end out there with good tools for creating > > >forms, manipulate data, etc..???? > > > > For production leve programing Java with one of the better tools > > (Symantec Visual Cafe or IBM Visual Age for Java) arround that is the > > best you can get for a lot of purposes. > > > > If your applications are simple, the amount of data will remain small > > and the number of users will never be very many you can also use tools > > like Visual Basic or Delphi. Appart from Visual Basic you should > > however be aware that this kind of tools is geting significant > > competition from Java based tools and some of them may dissapear in a > > not too distant future. > > And make sure you look at the Informix Data Director for VB. VB's > native database support is uh, um, errrrr.... > > If you are outgrowing the confines of VB, Delphi and Java, take a > look at SuperNova ( http://www.supernova.com ). SN makes use of all > the buzzwords (GUI, n-tier, web deployment, no-recompile portability) > ...and it runs on all major platforms, including Linux. (heh, heh.) > > :-) > > [If I've seemed a bit rabid lately about this SN thing, please > forgive me. It's just that it's been so long since I got really > excited about a development tool. Or indeed anything at work.] > > -- > > Ciao, > Billy > > /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za > \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ > / > \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I > / think we should go along with him..." > \\________________________________________________________________________________________________ -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 4-MATE Information Engineering Inc. | +--------------------------+------------------------------+ | 4-MATE d.o.o. | Tel: +385 (1) 242-116 | | Kosa bb | +385 (1) 242-126 | | 10000 Zagreb | Fax: +385 (1) 242-121 | | Hrvatska (Croatia) | e-mail: dkropf@4mate.hr | | | URL: http://www.4mate.hr | | | http://www.4net.hr | | | http://www.4bank.com | +--------------------------+------------------------------+