Re: NewEra to exploit Universal Server (fwd)

> But have you seen the June 1. issue of Computerworld? > According to it NewEra 3.0 won't ship until December. December!?? > And the reason? According to Computerworld it's beeing reworked to run > under Windows 3.1 - el stupido gigante. > > Informix has apperantly listend to those who say they can't upgrade to > Windows 95/NT - and is delaying the whole thing. > What kind of an argument is that? If this is true it may be the final > straw that broke NewEra for us. We will look much more seriously at > the other alternatives now. Well, quite frankly, there are LOTS of folks who will not make an immediate jump to 32-bit platforms. Informix is making a sound business decision to support a customer base that will remain on 16-bit platforms for deployment. They are responding to the market -- and the market bears out that Win95 has not gone ballistic as Microsoft would have us believe. > Of course a Windows 95/NT version should have been released now, and > any work Informix wanted to do to make it run on ancient technology > could have been done afterwards, or in parallell by someone else. Again, it's not "ancient" technology...it's a platform we -- and many of our clients, coworkers and associates, are choosing to retain. And, if Informix chooses to continue to do multi-platform support via on code stream, they do need to reengineer the product prior to release. It ain't pretty, but I don't see many alternatives. > Another reason given in the article is that NewEra has to be > revamped to accommodate the nonstandard data types used in Illustra. > What kind of reasoning is this? How can this be true? That must be > possible to do in a followup release. Informix has all the time braged > about the extensibility via class libraries, and now they claim to > have to delay the one most important release so far to put in such > extensions. Where earlier statements incorrect? NewEra is intended to support the Datablade technology that will be utilized in Universal Server. Hence, real tight coupling for any data type the market can dream up. The claim that 3.0 is "important" is very true...so why wait another year to integrate something that provides incredible extensibility? That's something I don't believe ANY other vendor -- tool or database -- can offer as a "today" solution. I'd call that thinking ahead. - Corinne -- Corinne Gregory, Consulting Services Manager ASIX, Inc. 777 108th Ave. NE, Suite 1830, Bellevue WA 98004-5118 corinne.gregory@asix.com