Re: Are we crazy

In article <3oo7hk$qlh@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> kmart!jregep@uunet.uu.net writes: > > Scott writes. > >We have just found out that we need to develop a package very quickly. From > >past experience, we believe that it would take about 8-10 weeks to do the > >job in RDS/4GL (using our own 4GL code generators!). The powers that be > >want it done in about 4 weeks and with Windoze front ends! (ie telnet session > >isn't good enough!). Much of the tricky processing etc can be handled with > >SPL and triggers but our experience in developing Windows Client Server stuff > >is fairly limited (have done masses of 4GL stuff though). We need to work > >out the best way of doing it. There will be plenty of "Non-trivial" screens > >to write. The following is a list of some of the possibilities. We would > >appreciate any thoughts on these options: > > > >1) NewEra > >2) ODBC - Visual C++ } > > Visual Basic } - They already own dev tools for these 3. > >3) Powerbuilder } > >4) Magic > >5) Run away to a South Pacfic Island. > >6) Other..................... Hi Scott, although my obvious choice would be NewEra ( :-) ), did you take a look at NEXTSTEP as a development environment ? There is an Informix EOF adaptor available for NS/Intel... Greetings from Munich, Alexander -- Alexander Koerner @ Informix Germany Oskar-Messter-Str. 25, 85737 Ismaning Tel.: +49 89 960 980 Fax: +49 89 960 98 500 Email: alexk@informix.com (NeXTmail accepted!)