Re: New Era for Unix Dead???

In article <532aq7$801@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, billy@west.co.za (Billy Wheeler) wrote: >> I'm having trouble getting a fix on Informix's plans for New Era for the >> Unix environment. What I've been able to gather is that NE3 is *not* >> going to be ported to Unix. The official statment from my sales rep is >> that NE3 is a development platform for Win95 and Win NT. She couldn't >> get me any info regarding plans to port the new version to Unix. > >As I said, I think the intention is that you will deploy your user interface >under Windoze, not Unix/X. > >HTH. (And if I'm wrong, could somebody correct me... :) Billy, I think you're wrong. My understanding is that Informix are going to ship a runtime library for Motif, much as they have for Character-mode terminals. Development is Win95/NT only, but Motif deployment *is* a happening thang. Cheers, Kerry S ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.5 June 96 Quanta Systems, Auckland | http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/ New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | ftp://ftp.iiug.org/pub/informix/faq Home: +64 9 279-3571 | ftp://kcbbs.gen.nz:/pub/informix/