Re: NT Workload Server...pick a front end

On Sat, 01 Aug 1998 17:48:51 GMT, mjgator@sibretown.com wrote: >Spent lo these many months taking a 4-GL under DOS (Novell) system (which has >been kicking a** since 1986 doncha know) and decided to convert it to run on >an NT server. A small office..no more than 8-10 people doing input, but >fairly good size tables...half to a million rows per. Everyone clamoring for >a graphics front end. Ok. Went with New Era because of the ability to use >the 4-GL reports (roughly 280 reports that would function with only minor >modification..thank god). Well, as we all now know, this may not have been >the best decision. At another turning point with the system and have another >development effort under way. I need a nice front end to hook up to >Workgroup Server for NT..running under Win '95 at the client side. >Everything I used to use seems to become history before it is off the >shelf...Delphi, Foxpro, everything. That kind of tools do have a difficult time, and that will only become more so as time passis. Some will survive for quite some time, but I would be sceptical as to their future development as you are. >Java isn't ready for this that I can >see. This I don't understand. Java is now used in small applications as well as in major enterprice type applications. We use it ourselves and it works great. The best development tools seems to be Symantec Visual Cafe and IBM Visual Age for Java. We use the latter. One area where Java is still lacking some is in the type of reports you can so easily do with 4GL. We will do a lot to find effecitve solutions to that within the next months. Don't hold your breath for anything we do though. There are reporting tools out there that you can use. > What would be a (gasp) safe choice right now? Would love to keep the >4-gl capability for the report writing, but would be great to find a front >end that someone on earth knows...and may be here tomorrow. Remember under >NT, not Unix. Thanks. The only way I know of keeping the 4GL report writing capability is to use 4GL. Via Dynamic 4GL now awailable from Informix you can run your programs on Windows NT with a GUI front end. Might be something to look at. Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)