Re: Informix to resell 4Js as Informix Dynamic 4GL

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F504159C663410DB763FC317 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Somebody told me the same too! I think that this is an important move for recognition the installed base of 4GL. 4js is a very impressive product, but I think that INFORMIX will need to restate the prices. Peter Lancashire wrote: > Terry Lawlor told the UK Informix User Group (Infuse) yesterday that > Informix will announce to day that it is to have a 4GL for Windows > product. It turns out to be 4Js. Apparently Informix will support it > themselves. Available from November. Sounds like a ringing endorsement > and a recognition that 4GL is not dead. > > Interestingly, a big new OLTP project was described for some big outfit > that uses IDS and 4GL. Apparently Informix recommends 4GL for > mission-critical OLTP systems. Confirms my suspicion that client-server > is an unreliable rats nest of suppliers wriggling off the hook. > -- > Peter Lancashire > Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc > Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK > Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 > Mail: Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk > --- > My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. > Sorry. > All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. > --- > Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/ --------------F504159C663410DB763FC317 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Melvin Perez Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Melvin Perez n: Perez;Melvin org: CAM Informatica. S. A. email;internet: cam@codetel.net.do title: Technical Vicepresident tel;work: (809) 686-5574 tel;fax: (809) 686-5467 tel;home: (809) 227-2893 x-mozilla-cpt: ;-960 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------F504159C663410DB763FC317--