Re: GUI-frontend
Posted in 1993
Topics: General Discussion
In article 00084C40@Materna.Materna.De?, ABIT@Materna.Materna.De (Andreas Bittner) writes: > We are searching a good GUI-frontend for Informix. At the moment we use > AMASK from Ariadne as a character-frontend. But many of our customers use > MS-Windows on their PC. We plan to convert our sofware to run on MS-Windows. > The backend Informix should run on a UNIX-machine as a server (client-server > solution). But the GUI-frontend should be flexible enough to run on OSF/MOTIF > too. > > Who has experience with such a GUI-frontend and can tell me some advantages > or disadvantages? > > ------------------------------ Andreas Bittner ----------------------------- > ------------------------------ abit@materna.de ----------------------------- > I've been using a product called iXVIEW/SQL which is a GUI-based front-end tool that allows you to select tables, construct and execute queries, and format reports, all with a point-and-click style interface. It runs on many UNIX-based Motif platforms. It's been a great help to me. If you want more information, send email to info@qualix.com as we do sell the product as well.