Re: Opinions on NewEra

Posted in 1996

Kerry Sainsbury — Tue, 31 Dec 1996 09:01:11 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <32BA5D8E.4510@zip.com.au>, Oliver Townshend <oliver@zip.com.au> wrote: >Joseph Loutzenhiser wrote: > >> I don't think NewEra 3.0 is out yet. I found no mention of it on the >> Informix website yesterday. As for the current version of NewEra, >> Delphi runs ring around it. If portability is not an issue (if you're >> going to use your stat app on Windows only), I would recommend highly >> that you use Delphi over NewEra. > >I would agree with Joe, with the exception if the client has a >substantial base of Informix 4-Gl programs already written, then it can >be converted to New-Era more easily than Delphi. New-ERa also does >Application Partitioning quite well and works very well with Informix. We use Delphi for the GUI stuff (with nice OO classes for our business objects), and have 4GL-based daemons sitting on the Unix box which actually do the grunt work. Works very well. Too. Cheers, Kerry S ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.5 June 96 Quanta Systems, Auckland | http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/ New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | ftp://ftp.iiug.org/pub/informix/faq Home: +64 9 279-3571 | ftp://kcbbs.gen.nz:/pub/informix/