Re: Wingz Future?

In article <1993Jul27.134818.18673@drd.com> mark@drd.com (Mark.Lawrence) writes: >I called Informix and the above is untrue. Wingz 2.0 is NOT out and the >representative I spoke with would not even comment on when it might be >out (this is a worse response than what I got last time when the told >me the third quarter). The representative did say HyperTools is out and >does support some of the newer features that will be encompassed in new >version of Wingz. > At the Informix Worldwide User Conference (2 weeks ago) I learned the following information: o Wingz 2.0 is planned to be the last major release of the product o The spreadsheet tool included in HyperScript Tools contains all the functionality of Wingz 2.0 o Future Informix development of spreadsheet technologies will be included only in HyperScript Tools o The run-time version of HyperScript Tools has no native environment of its own; i.e. if HST run-time users require access to spreadsheets, the HST application must provide the spreadsheet tool interface. o HST is currently available for MS Windows; future releases for Motif and the Macintosh are planned "for the second half of 93" - no one could provide a more concrete release date than that o Wingz 2.0 currently exists in some (apparently beta) form for Windows - I saw it in a demo - but is currently unavailable on *any* platform. It does look very nice - much improved over 1.1. Informix is marketing Wingz as a full-featured graphical spreadsheet front-end to their database products. Hope this information is useful. If any of the above is inaccurate, feel free to post corrections. Waiting in the Wingz... Brian O'Sullivan bosulliv@mitre.org MITRE Corp. Washington, DC NASA HQ site *** All opinions expressed are those of the author, not MITRE ***