Re: NEWERA DEAD - INFORMIX VICE PRESIDENT QUOTE

Tim Simpson wrote: > > Hi > > October 97 issue of Computing has the following quote from Jeff Hudson:- > > "Among the casualties of the scaling down, as well as people, will be > the object-orientated development tool, NewEra." > > Hudson also had some bad news for NewEra customers: there will be no new > versions of the OO development tool. > > "..you have to be brain dead to think that a database company also needs > its own proper tools for the database. Java and Visual Basic have become > the standards. We will continue to support the current NewEra customers. > We encourage users of I-4gl to migrate to the industry standards." > > Any comments > > Bye for now > > Correct spelling in 'excelsys' to 'excelsis' for e-mail. My condolences... :-) Hey, maybe now is a great time to put a New Era distribution on an FTP site. It might attract some users. 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 ================================================================