Re: Informix: Please buy Borland

peter@prospect.anprod.csiro.au (Peter Wiley) wrote: :In article <3328B069.2A34@netime.com> Bret Lowry <lowry@netime.com> writes: : :[snip] : :>themselves, they obviously don't understands Windows programming! As far :>as Access goes, it runs circles around Newera. : :Maybe; I haven't used NE3. NewEra is dead. It's too little too late. Even Informix probably knows that. See the last paragraph below. : However, Access sucks, big-time. Try fetching :30K rows with around 40 columns into Access and see what happens. Dies, :big-time, on the machines I've used (Win95 with 64Mb RAM). Just tried with 38000 rows (only 31 columns though) and it worked like a charm. Then tried with a query resulting in all 713550 rows in the table beeing returned with equally fine results. (Windows NT, 32 MB RAM, 200 MHz Pentium Pro workstation, server with OnLine 7.10.UC1 on SCO Unix 3.2.4.2 on a 100 MHz Compaq ProLiant). Of course I use the OpenLink ODBC drivers that may make a difference. Also Windows 95 isn't the thing to have on your development machine. Your time is too expensive for that. Nobody in their right mind would still use MS Access for application development except possibly for some reporting. It's the best tool I know of for general database access and maintenance during development in other languages. Nothing I have seen comes close. Informix could learn a lot if they bothered to study it. :IMHO, there isn't yet any GUI client-side tool I'd bet a business on. :Delphi comes closest. The significant problem is that it's client side only unless you limit yourself to only Windows NT as a server. The future clearly belongs to Java. Multi tier applications in one language is what we have allways been looking for and it will shortly be possible with Java and appropriate tools arround it. It will take some time until CAD/CAM and some other types of applications that set extreme requirements on client side execution speed can effectively be created, but even that will come. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org