New-Era, how good is it?

My company is currently looking into investing in Informix New-Era as one of the major technologies to base our consulting bussiness on. After spending some time reading through the documentation and poking at it for a bit I've come up with this general impression: Good Points ----------- 1) I like many of the concepts behind New-Era especially the cross platform/gui portability and the fact that the code can be generated as C++ code. This should allow developer's to customize the code as well as protecting whatever investment was originally made into an application should Informix, for whatever reason, decide to "kill" the product (not that it would ever happen ... just that I am paranoid that way.) 2) From what I have gathered it is possible to extend New-Era object methods via C++ code. This hits me as being rather useful as developers will not be locked into whatever templates Informix has created. Bad Points ---------- 1) I've heard that New-Era is slow. 2) New Era seems to not be particularly stable. I've had it fail several times in one day while poking around in it with a pentium 60, 16 mb memory and 500 mb free disk space with windows 3.11 using Informix's SE engine running locally on the windows machine (though I have to say that at least New-Era seemed to handle the error rather than gpf). 3) There seems to be two major products that Informix distributes with New-Era these being the full blown New-Era and the viewpoint pro. My general thought being that it looks like there is going to be a BIG learning curve with this product. 4) The tool seems to be rather expencive. If anyone can correct me on any of my general observations please let me know. If anyone cares to add to these point ... let me know. If anyone is currently using New-Era on a project and care to give me general impressions (i.e. how the tool performs, flexibility, Informix support for New-Era etc.) about how things are working out for them I would greatly appreciate it. Frank Tarzanin