Re: Delphi and I-Net for Windows 5.x

> > Borland's SQL links provides native connectivity to Informix. The > product is available as > a stand alone package for around 180.00 or as part of the 1900.00 > Delphi client/server edition. > Have you been using Delphi to connect to Informix?? I have prototyped > a portion of our > commercialy available Informix 4gl app in New Era, Access, c++ and am > currently in the > porcess of doing it in Delphi. I would like to compare notes. We have also been testing Delphi, Access and had a quick look at NewEra. We were not impressed by NewEra v1.0 and are currently awaiting version 2.0. We have made a prototype of our 4GL application in Delphi and Access. Our conclusion is that Delphi is a super tool *but* it has one major feature missing, namely the possibility to perform the same functionality as the 4GL CONSTRUCT statement. I.e. it seems to us that you can not easily design a form in which the user can fill-in-the-blanks and press "Search". Access is OK as long as the application is small, I should mention that there are numerous problems with the various combinations of TCP-stacks and ODBC drivers. We will not port our application to MS-Access. We are currently eagerly awaiting the OpenLink ODBC driver to see how it compares with INFORMIX-CLI and SQL Retriever from VisionWare. If Delphi had a component for QBE (Quer-By-Example) we would probably go for it. But for the time being we want to test NewEra 2.0 as well. I'd be more than interested to share experiences with others who are in the process of porting old I-4GL code to Windows. > Javier Arroyo * Vice President > Automated Environments * Roseville, CA > email 74734.162@compuserve.com > fax 916-782-8557 > phone 916-782-unix > > -- Steinar Overbeck Cook Balder Programvare AS