What is Informix SQL for?

Path: emory!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!osh3!chip From: chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1991Oct06.220851.8889@osh3.OSHA.GOV> Date: 6 Oct 91 22:08:51 GMT Organization: U.S. D.O.L - Occupational Safety & Health Admin. We have Informix SQL 2.10 running on an SCO SysV.3.2.2 system. What I'd like to know is: Why would anybody buy Informix SQL alone? IMHO, the ace report writer is not quite enough to do everything you would want to do with reports. The perform screen handler is awful. And the RDSQL language, while nice for what it does, does not allow you to generate real applications. The agency standard here for *nix systems is Informix. With previous versions they had ace, informer, perform, etc. But they also had the C-ISAM libraries which made the whole thing useful. When they bought SQL they didn't get ESQL/C or anything else. There doesn't seem to be enough here to make aa "real application". Why would anybody buy this product without ESQL/C or C-ISAM? Why would RDS sell it this way? Am I missing something? Thanks! -- -----------------------+--------------------------------------------------- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki| The opinions expressed here are my own and are not chip@oshcomm.osha.gov | supported or even generally accepted by OSHA. :-) -----------------------+---------------------------------------------------