Re: Port Informix 3.3 -> Current Version. How Difficult?

: broswell@syssrc.com (Bob Roswell) writes: : I'd like some advice/comments on the following debate. : : A company has an Informix based system (C Programs calling Informix : 3.3 database, running on a AT&T 3B2 computer). The system meets the : company needs, but the hardware is too slow and and is too hard to : support. : : One side of the debate suggests porting the Informix 3.3 to a current : version running on a Pentium and SCO Unix. This side is claiming that : the port is trivial. C Programs calling InformiX 3.3 database means it's no ESQL/C with embeded sql statements. It may still be relatively trivial to convert it. You should be able to optain a set of ESQL/C manuals from Informix to evaluate this. : The other side is claiming that the architecture of the new version of : Informix is completely different and the system need a full rewrite : just to port the system. Then, as long as we are rewriting, we should : use SQL Server and NT. Or perhaps Informix SE or OnLine Workgroup Server for Windows NT or SCO? It depends on what your application does. No way of saying what you should do without any information on this. If a user interface is important however there is no way I would consider C programs with the excelent GUI tools now available (like Delphi, Visual Basic and possibly Informix NewEra). Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, Postbox 9090, Gronland, 0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company