Re: What development application

David Chamberlain <david.chamberlain@ibm.net> escreveu no artigo <33E8F9BD.2571@ibm.net>... > We are a small company (< 300 people). Most of out IT department > revolves around Electronic Data Interchange with our customers. We > recieve electronic Purchase Orders and return electronic Advanced Ship > Notices, for example. We are an International Freight Forwarder. > > Most of our applications involve the following: > > 1. Receive EDI data of some sort. We have a powerful EDI translator > that will translate this data into the DB. > > 2. Manipulate, add information, etc to the data. Here is where we need > a development environment. > > 3. Send the value added data out to a customer. Again, we use an EDI > translator for that. > > My desire is for some of the following. > > 1. Rapid (really rapid) application development. > 2. Connection between the application and data base should be as fast > and painless as possible (read, I would prefer to not have to use ODBC) > 3. Robust, stable applications > > Thanks for your input. My $ : Informix as RDBMS; Delphi (Borland) as RAD language Manuel Pintor > > David Chamberlain > Oregon International Airfreight, Inc. >