Re: NewEra to exploit Universal Server

Great, lets get more of this kind of information (or post it at the informix www site). But have you seen the June 1. issue of Computerworld? According to it NewEra 3.0 won't ship until December. December!?? And the reason? According to Computerworld it's beeing reworked to run under Windows 3.1 - el stupido gigante. Informix has apperantly listend to those who say they can't upgrade to Windows 95/NT - and is delaying the whole thing. What kind of an argument is that? If this is true it may be the final straw that broke NewEra for us. We will look much more seriously at the other alternatives now. Of course a Windows 95/NT version should have been released now, and any work Informix wanted to do to make it run on ancient technology could have been done afterwards, or in parallell by someone else. Also most any machine that can run a NewEra application can also run Windows 95. Of course I relize that many large organizations have decided to wait with Windows 95, and that is a problem for Informix. The major point here is that the release of 3.0 is so important that even such problems shouldn't delay it. Informix realy need this release to stay in the game of beeing a serious development product supplier. Another reason given in the article is that NewEra has to be revamped to accommodate the nonstandard data types used in Illustra. What kind of reasoning is this? How can this be true? That must be possible to do in a followup release. Informix has all the time braged about the extensibility via class libraries, and now they claim to have to delay the one most important release so far to put in such extensions. Where earlier statements incorrect? Even if some internals have to be reworked a follow up release should have been scheduled for that. May be the whole article is a missunderstanding (or worse?)? There are many other parts of Informix's support of the Windows environement that are in a realy bad shape (the I-Net product and how it works, or rather hardly works, that it isn't officially available for Windows 95 are some exsamples). Together this doesn't look rosy (as it realy should by now). I am (probably now) going to Chicago, but this article got me in a very bad mood. Comments from Informix are realy needed here! usergrp@informix.com (Christine Shannon) wrote: ...snip of good information... Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company