Re: About NewEra and other tools

In article <6bc57e$qgb$1@news.xmission.com>, pxeros@central.tee.gr says... > > I am about to use NewEra in order to develop a new application > and i wonder how many software houses or developers > have decided to use NewEra. I would like to know > the percentage of NewEra's market share because it is a very > critical decision, and I am not sure that is the right one. > Remarks/comments on other tools(Delphi for example) compared > with NewEra will be very good. > > Thanks for your time > > PX. > really depends what you want to do with it. I believe that if your planning to build data entry type of apps, then VB/Delphi is better. I think delphi is a better product but it has less market share than VB, yet executes faster (than VB, and probably newera), generates smaller code than VB (?) and newera, and most importantly you don't have to pay per user with VB/delphi! I'm not sure if the current version of VB/delphi currents n-tier applications but newera certainly does. Let me re-phrase that. With newera you can deligate a module to be a server to run on a different machine than the client. For VB/delphi i believe you would have to write the server in a second language. eg. windows interface in newera, and server in perl talking to the db. this is the main reason we choose newera to develop in. On the negative side newera also has limited upgrade paths, ie informix is not going to release any major versions after v3. (anyone know when v3.1 and 3.2 are going to be release ;) cheers denzil