Re: Visual Cafe nixes Jworks?

Daniel Schultz <schultd@sprintmail.com> wrote: :Nils Myklebust wrote: :> :> Cosmo Lee <cosmo@echonyc.com> wrote: :> :> :That's a very interesting press release. So what does this say about :> :the future of Jworks? If Informix is going to align w/ Symantec for :> :Visual Cafe, why would we need Jworks? :> :> Obviously we wouldn't and Jworks isn't ever going to be released as a :> separate product. At least I can't understand how they could do that :> as it would be a direct competitor. You generally do not release :> products that directly compete with the major product from someone you :> have a *strategic* cooperation with. From what I have seen of :> Symantecs Visual Cafe and what I know they are doing with the product :> Informix would also be *very* hard put to come up with something that :> could equal it. : :I've noticed that the Symantec/Cafe Pro website still says that Cafe Pro :will include native Informix access if direct feedback and Symantec's :market research shows a demand. Now *that* is confusing and worrying. I :think for the moment I will risk US$49 on Roaster's Release 3; my Mac :was feeling left out, anyway! : :Daniel Schultz Well, Dear Sir. If you had read a few lines further down you would also have seen the following: "Visual Cafe is slated to release at the end of November '96, and will not include dbANYWHERE. A more advanced version bundled with dbANYWHERE, called Visual Cafe PRO, is expected to release in December of '96, and include data connected control auto-creation that will generate Java code that connects to dbANYWHERE servers." So now you are confused - and worried????? Aren't these products released yet? Or what is Symantec talking about here? Other places they are talking about the "Watcom" database - it doesn't even exist. The company doesn't even exist any more. Is Symantec gone wild? It isn't uncommon to forget to update parts of a web site. Virtualy every web site have this problem. And the news release of the strategic alliance between Informix and Symantec was dated April 2. That was this year. If I where Symantec I wouldn't put it up in big letters on my web site until I had products that could be delivered. I would be very carefull about comitting the same error Informix have lately about selling products that where not possible to deliver. And the Mac was included in the news release. Symantec is fairly agressive on supporting the Mac as well as MS Windows. However Roaster's Java developement system sure looks like a very good alternative for Mac users (from a cursory glance at their web page only). As we do not use Mac's it's not right for us, but may be for you. There are also several other contenders and as they are all working very hard it remains to be seen which will be the best and which will be most popular - both important selection criteria. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org