Re: NEWERA THE END? --- does anyone care?
Felix, Your post will stay with me for at least a quarter... :-) Serious, it was a great point, and I must admit, I've been trying to get a pulse on the great GUI chase, and your points will stay with my thinking for some time. It's damn frustrating to pick out a tool or methodology only to find out somebody else's product "does that and a whole lot more", or "coming soon the next great methodology that will save us". 4GL seems to be persisting in spite of the GUIs, which is quite remarkable. Probably the tools I haven't given up on are shell script, and vi, they're like bad pennies, they just won't go away. Hmmm, maybe 4GL is in that class as well. :-) Thanks, Tim Felix Koshy Mathews wrote: > > >From Informix development tools I recommend only 4GL which have a good history and > life span. For GUI - front-end tools we should look in the market for the best > performer, it is a field where every thing gets outdated within a quarter and of > cutthroat marketing ( in which Informix is on the receiving end ). If you are > thinking about the future of your GUI-application then you should probably switch > over to some JAVA - front-end tool, again whatever tool you buy will be outdated > within one quarter and probably out of market within a year, or you may get some > sicko upgrades until that company stops supporting it. Look at Gupta for example > they were doing good, then they become sick, they choked on new releases, then > changed their name etc., that is the life of GUI front-end. Basic reason being the > GUI O/S ( MS Windows ) itself don't have a life span over 2 years ( 16-bit 3.1x to > 32 bit 95 to 98 ). So it is a part of life in GUI-development. > > When Informix is struggling to make money on the best RDBMS engine available in > the market, how can they make money on a GUI-development tool, GUI-tool's market > is for/full of mushrooming small companies, which pops-up today and fades off. > > -- > Have a nice day > > Felix K. Mathews > mailto:fmathews@systems.dhl.com -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com 6 6 -------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o---------------------- http://www.inxutil.com - My Ezine http://www.informix.com - Informix Software Inc. http://www.iiug.org - International Informix User Group/FAQ news://comp.databases.informix - Newsgroup for Informix Users ================================================================