Re: Development tool recommendations sought

> I work for a medium sized corporation in western Canada. My company is >currently looking to migrate its 'big' applications (warehousing >management, head office systems, etc.) from the proprietary Honeywell-Bull >mainframe database, TPS, and its COBOL 'development tool' ;) > The corporate direction is to migrate to a new tool set that is able to >access many databases on a broad range of platforms. > We currently have 6 BullDPS6000's running GCOS6 rev H, several high >performance (dual pentium) NT servers at each sight, 1 AS/400 running >version 3.1 and 2 SMP Escala running AIX. > The network glue that allows these systems to communicate with each >other and the 250 WFWG311/WIN95 clients is TCP/IP. The mainframes, servers >and hosts communicate predominately through custom socket applications. > We are looking at several development tools including VisualAge, >PowerBuilder, Progress and Acess/VB. The primary database may be ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Have a look at "Delphi" from Borland (see "http://www.borland.com"; for more information). >proprietary to the tool but it must also interface with our existing >databases; MSSQLServer, AS400/DB2, Access and, with luck, TPS. Also, the >tool must generate windows forms for clients to access multiple databases >across the WAN through socket services. > Any and all suggestions and/or recommendations as to databases and tools >would be welcome. > Thank you in advance, Tim. > > hp@tic.ab.ca David ----- Standards are great. Everyone should have one ! (Charles Moore) ----- David Brabant, | E-mail: David.Brabant@csl.sni.be Siemens Nixdorf (SNI), | X-400: C=BE;A=RTT;P=SCN;O=SNI;OU1=LGG1;OU2=S1 Centre Software de Li'ge, | S=BRABANT;G=DAVID 2, rue des Fories, | URLs: www.sni.de www.csl.sni.be/~david 4020 Li'ge (BELGIUM) | Phone: +32 41 201 609 FAX: +32 41 201 642