Re: NewEra 2.0 and Win95 ?

David wrote, }rajeevn@lmis.jcdc.doleta.gov wrote : } }> By the I way looked at New Era 3.0 like a month Ago At }> Menlo Park CA. (OFFICAILLY for 2 days). }--snip-- } }Any ideas of a UK release date on New Era 3? My company is currently }evaluating release 2 for a new project. I was at Informix UK on Tuesday and the best date for NewEra v3 was still Q4 (Sept/Oct 96) and it will be Win95 & WinNT only. For Win3.11 you will need v2.11/2. FYI I only saw screencams of v3.0 :( }We have never used New Era }before. We are under the impression that MOST of our 4gl (for Windows) }code will remain unchanged, mainly reports and processing, but ALL our }screen based programs will need rewriting. } }We have tons and tons of code, about 200 forms (.per's), about 100 }reports, 60-70 'screen' programs and the rest is 'processing' code. }According to the gumf we have on New Era, we should have quite an easy }job in converting our 4gl apps into New Era. I somehow don't think this }rings true :-) I agree with your doubts :). You may want to ask about a project which takes 4GL and produces NewEra 00 code (Not yet available). } }Have many informixers in this newsgroup migrated from 4gl to New Era 2?? }What were the major pitfalls you found? I also would be interested Cheers, Peter +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Peter K. Botcherby, Guys Hospital, London, UK Tel +44 (0) 171 9554648 | | p.botcherby@umds.ac.uk Fax +44 (0) 171 9554644 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ } }Regards, }David. } }