Re: Which GUI to frontend 7.1?

Let's hear from the audience: "If Informix were so bold as to introduce Java as an integral part of the server and tools architecture, what would you do with it?" For example, would Java be used for Intranet, Intranet applications only (phone list, personnel photos, information kiosks); maybe some elements of a datawarehouse (data mining tools, deployment of end user access to the warehouse). At the extreme, would anyone really bet their OLTP systems on Java? Will commercial users align their strategies and direction with a non proprietary language for their core systems and effectively hinge the viability of their business on Java. Maybe. I'm just asking. I recall that CIO translates to "career is over". Will a CIO walk into the CEO's office and say "Boss, I've saved US$350,000 on tools and related vendor services by implementing all our new core systems R&D in Java."? Maybe. I'm just asking. Adam Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@encore.com> wrote: >Daniel James wrote: >> >> Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@encore.com> writes: >> >> > And Microsoft is committing to Java big time. >> >> In other words, they're going to take a good idea, modify the standards >> to fit their needs, cross-compile it so that it runs poorly on any >> platform other than their own (with the exception of Unix who's >> existance has not been confirmed or acknowledged by any of their staff), >> report that it will be available a few years before it actually is, give >> it away for free for awhile to destroy the competition, and then force >> us to use their buggy, bloated, resource-hungry product...? >> >> Friends don't let friends give in to Microsquish's marketing ploys. >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Daniel James - Database Administrator djames@statsci.com >> Data Analysis Prod Div of MathSoft (formerly StatSci) (206) 283-8802 x284 >Well Sun pulled a Microsoft on Microsoft. It's nice to see Microsoft adopt >standards from somewhere besides themselves. Trojan Horse marketing can be >adopted to a variety of products if you want to get things into the mainstream. >( I doubt seriously that INFORMIX wants to be mainstream though but that's >another thread ) >I'm just really curious to see where INFORMIX stands on Java, and what >they're going to do with it. It's inevitable that once Universal Server comes >out that folks will want Java apps and applets to work with Universal Server. >And I don't mean just compatibility. I mean that Java is an integral part >of the engine. Already there's vendor announcements about integrating Java >into Operating Systems. This is just too big to ignore. >It's exciting to know that I can learn a new language and application development >environment that will be extremely mainstream and found everywhere. I've already >been experimenting with a Bourne Shell Script Java Code Pump to create a one- >table maintenance screen in Java. It's fun. I take and make a nice form with >Symantecs' Cafe, then take the code and integrate it into a shell script. I >can't hardly wait for the JDBC to get done. Then it's really going to be fun. >:-) >Tim >-- > \\\\|// > (6 6) >==============================---o00--(_)--00o---============================ >Tim Schaefer tschaefe@encore.com tschaefe@shadow.net >Encore Computer Corp (800)726-2230 x5608 http://www.shadow.net/~tschaefe >=============================================================================