Re: Experience with New Era

Scott wrote: > > I had written previously that the client I'm working for tried new era > and switched to PB. I received some mail asking for more details. > Here's what I know. > I was not personally involved the new era development, I was brought in > when the client switched to PB. > The project, to convert the client to c/s, was and still is being > managed by CSC. They tried unsuccessfully to develop and deploy two > applications with new era. They had two major complaints: 1) the > application was too tightly coupled to the db, i.e. when the application > was developed against a test db, it was difficult to then deploy the app > against a production db. 2) the tool was buggie. > That is all the detail that I'm aware of. It sounds to me like your client did not know what they were doing, to say that the application was too tightly coupled to the database and was difficult to then deploy just shows they did not understand NewEra and did not design the application properly. Newera is a OO language and sould be programmed as such, it is NOT a procedural language like powerbuilder. I am currently working on a large (350+) user NewEra application (it's almost complete) and have been very impressed with the language, but you are right to say that the tools are weak (Informix is updating them in release 3).