Re: Kudos to Informix

Jack Parker wrote: > > (I'm waiting for a compile) > > I've been meaning to mention this for a while, but no time donchaknow. But > this particular compile is a bear, so I've got a minute every 20 or so here. > > Some time ago I went to Malaysia and assisted in installing a couple of > Online engines - along with my application. Since then I've been back here > checking up on that application occasionally. One of the nice things about > Informix connectivity is that I connect to my local engine, select > database@malaysia_server and rock. Sure performance isn't like the engine > was next door, in fact the transpacific cable went down during this period > and all network activity was by satellite. Perfomance was still > acceptable - certainly better than using a telnet session. The advantage > being that when you ask, for example, 'Table-> Info' - you aren't drawing > sections of characters on the screen and then waiting for the next packet - > your engine gets the list of tables and then displays them to you. PLUS even > with a poor net connection - the engine never dropped the line. > > There are other advantages as well - your editor session is local - no long > type ahead wait. Syntax checking and so forth is local - I'm sure you get > the picture. True client server. > > This also works from an SE engine a colleague is using. > > It's nice to have some things you can depend on. > > Sorry about the disjointed flavour of this - it's been written over 6 'compile > breaks.' > > cheers > j. > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA > jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com Back in Boise > _____________________________________________________________________________ > > If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy. > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. > _____________________________________________________________________________ I have lines going the far east and sometimes my users complain about the speed, what speed is you line?