Re: NewEra: Anyone using it?

Posted in 1997

David W Chan — Wed, 23 Apr 1997 21:21:37 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

ebert@mail.ppp.net (Jens Ebert) wrote: >Hi, >please share your comments with we on the following subjects: >- Overall experience Good language and the tools are improving. Lack of object partitioning means that partitioning is difficult. Lack of exception handling makes it hard to handle errors in a controlled way. >- Migration 2.2 to 3.0 No major problems. New compiler complains more because it does more checking. I noticed that v3 applications are faster, and take up less resources than v2.2. All controls are 3d but no tab controls. >- 3-tier applications: PC, applications server(s), database server(s) Waste of time. One big server process per client. It is better to come up with your own way to do this. >- How do the applications perform? v3 is noticeably faster. Screens with lots of fields will still take a long time to load. Will scale to 500 users at the most. >Thank you, >Jens >ebert@mail.ppp.net David W Chan GO5 Limited david@go5.com (work) dwc@cix.compulink.co.uk (home)