Re: Informix vs. Fox

Posted in 1997

Mike Ripley — Wed, 14 May 1997 09:16:57 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <01bc5b51$a0eb8740$68e6e495@kunz>, Reiner Kunz <Reiner.Kunz@pr-kunz2.M.eunet.de> writes >Hi Mario, > >do you really have to compare Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 against Informix? Hmm, >FoxPro is a truly desktop database (and is doing this job quite well). It has no >standalone sql server inside the box but you can use FoxPro as a frontend to >Informix if you need a better graphical user interface and hate to program 4GL >apps. Personally, I would prefer FoxPro as frontend tool. Using it as main >database in a company depends from what you want to do with it. If you have >hundreds of user needing access to an address database I would take Informix as >backend (with FoxPro as frontend). Giving ten secretaries access to a database >is no problem with FoxPro alone. > >And last but not least, Visual FoxPro is a developer tool. You can use it for ad >hoc queries but I wouldn't giv it to my secretary. Excel, Access, Crystal Report >is better for this task. > Use NewEra by Informix as your GUI front end! -- Mike Ripley