Re: Upgrade from 4.00 to 5.00

In article <1v5c57INN8lt@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> alan@effluvia.den.mmc.com (Alan Popiel) writes: >->From: Graeme Sargent <graeme@pyra.co.uk> >->Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 18:55:05 +0100 >->To: alan@effluvia.den.mmc.com >->Subject: Re: Upgrade from 4.00 to 5.00 >->Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix >-> >->In comp.databases.informix you write: >-> >->>The whole idea of bundling DBACCESS with the engine is that everybody needs >->>SQL as a DBA level tool, but many folks use only 4GL or ESQL for applications >->>and therefore don't need or want ACE or PERFORM. If you want the latter, >->>they are now products separate from SQL, and must be purchased separately. >-> >->WHAT! This is news to me. I thought Perform and Ace continued to only >->be available as part of INFORMIX-SQL! >-> >->Cheers, >-> >->graeme >-> > >I don't know what the name of the Perform / Ace product is. It may still be >Informix-SQL. However, under the name "DBACCESS", SQL is now bundled with >engines in newer revs of Informix. So the name Informix-SQL would be somewhat >misleading. I haven't talked with a sales rep for a while, but I think the >new packaging is: You're right, it is still Informix-SQL. Your later comments about the reasons for the creation of DBAccess is correct: we had a lot of folks buying I-SQL just for the SQL bits, despite the fact that they didn't give a fig for the forms and reports. so, your listing is corrected to: > >a. SE engine, with DBACCESS >b. I-Net >c. OnLine engine, with DBACCESS >d. I-Star >e. 4GL application tools, either compiled or RDS >f. Perform / Ace application tools f. I-SQL >g. ESQL for various languages > David Coburn coburn@informix.com Informix Software, Inc. ...uunet!infmx!coburn ========================================================================= Any opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of Informix (or for that matter, anybody else). =========================================================================