Re: Informix and Macintoshes

>Russll Day (sassoc@jolt.mpx.com.au) wrote: >: I have a customer who is blessed with an office full of macs and wants to >: be able to run ad-hoc queries and canned reports from them. They seem to >: be having trouble finding something to their taste. > >My previous company was using a windows ad-hoc user report writer called >Business Objects. They paid a bunch of Andersen Consultants a ton of >money to come up with a choice. From wot I've seen of it & heard >from some of the other guys in the company it suited our needs fine. > >I now believe that Business Objects is available on the Mac platform also. > >Cheers, >Mike > Business Objects is available on the Mac, but not for access to Informix databases. We use Business Objects from the Macintosh to access Oracle databases, and are very happy with it, but we would really like to be able to use it to access our Informix databases. The orginal reason Business Objects (the company) gave for the inability to access Informix was the lack of I-Net for the Mac. Now that I-Net is available they say (and I can believe it) that there is not enough demand to make business sense to provide the port. Maybe if Russel Day's client has enough Macs he could persuade Business Objects to take the plunge. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Brown (Software Support Manager) Amgen Ltd Email: johnb@amgen.com Cambridge UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any opinions stated here are not neccesarily those of my employer