Re: Choose New Era???

In article <5h1kpj$p2k$1@despair.u-net.com>, david@go5.com (David W Chan) wrote: >The problem with Delphi compared to NewEra is that you can't build big >systems with it. In NewEra you can share your classes across many >DLLs whereas Delphi forces you to put everything in one. Can you explain this (I don't understand what you're saying) >NewEra is >not really appropriate for small systems because you have to do a lot >of work up-front. I would suggest that you should do a lot of work up-front in Delphi too (we have), including the ability to perform Query-by-Example. >In terms of performance, Delphi runs ok for up to 50-100 active users. >NewEra is ok for 400-500 active users. Can you explain these numbers please. Given that, at the end of the day, both products simply produce a collection of Intel opcodes talking to an Informix database, what makes NewEra performance better than Delphi's? In my comparison of NE 1.1 vs Delphi 1.0, it was Delphi that coped with large datasets *far* better than NE. Similarly, I don't understand how the choice of a *client* language affects the number of active users. Surely it's the Database's problem to deal with the number of requests likely to be received by the clients? I hear this a lot, but still don't understand. Am I just stupid? ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.8 March 1997 Quanta Systems, Auckland | http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/ New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | ftp://ftp.iiug.org/pub/informix/faq Home: +64 9 279-3571 | ftp://kcbbs.gen.nz:/pub/informix/