Re: Informix 4GL Compiler for NT?

Tim Schaefer (tschaefe@mindspring.com) wrote: : Kenneth Gonzalez from Informix wrote: : > Currently there is no 4GL compiler for NT provided by Informix. Watch : > for more on this in the near future. : > : > Ken : Who? : What? : When? : Where? : Why? In the immortal words of Annette Funicello, "Why? Because we liiiiike it" ;) Seriously, there's a one-word answer....Portability. It makes no sense to port only some of the products to NT when they're touting Informix as a cross-platform, cross-OS product. If we get 4GL, does that mean they'll also do onmonitor? Onmonitor uses the 4gl libraries (I believe). Joe : Tim : -- : Tim Schaefer \\\\|// : tschaefe@mindspring.com 6 6 : -------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o---------------------- : http://www.inxutil.com - My Ezine : http://www.informix.com - Informix Software Inc. : http://www.iiug.org - International Informix User Group/FAQ : news://comp.databases.informix - Newsgroup for Informix Users : ================================================================ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) author of: "INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide" Slaving away on "INFORMIX DEBUGGERS Survival Guide", available early 1998 from Prentice Hall/Informix Press. If you have debugging tips, tools, or ideas to share, please send me some e-mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------