Re: Informix and Lawson Software

Andrej Falout wrote: > > He did say 90% - and in my experience, that is actually a bit > conservative. I've carefully re-read my posting and I don't see anything in there that implies less than that either for 4Js. I've carefully used words like "mostly" or "does an excellent job" or "occasionally" and so on. In case it escaped attention because it's only implied (I expect intelligent technical people to be able to read between the lines) I'll state it explicitly: 4Js does *most* of the work for you where it is possible but you'd be a fool to port using any tool and then deliver from the first successful build. People who care about quality will methodically learn the differences, search for instances of the differences and correct the differences. > Same applies to 4Js and to a degree Aubit 4GL compilers. It also > applies to IBM Informix 4GL when using DB/2 as RDBMS. I don't doubt it's possible. I also don't doubt that 4Js analogues could also achieve the same thing; it depends on the authors and how many hours they've put in. I don't doubt that the different tools might be capable of slightly different achievements since it purely depends on the focus of the development teams. Last month the newsgroup was sullied by a long cross-posted argument between fans of competing products about the meaning of one suppliers excessive hyperbole. Let's not start another one. Besides, I prefer to watch OTC keep Mr. Querix's hyperbole in check. It's far more entertaining. If a product supplier needs to use sensationalism to try to get a leg-up, please direct your efforts to spam for CEO's. Let's keep a technical newsgroup based in reality. There are sufficient intelligent people here; it will only hurt in the long run to treat people like idiots by feeding them $2 marketing shite. -- I have a simple philosophy that gets me through life: Never buy cheap toilet paper. Learn to know what is important, and what is not important. - Replies directly to this message will go to an account that may not be checked for a week or two. For more timely e-mail response, use (only in an emergency) ahamm sanderson net au with all the usual punctuation.