Migrating from Informix to SQL SERVER
CONFIDENTIALITY. This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. ---------------------------------------------------------------- We are actually looking at moving all our custom applications and reports from Informix to SQL SERVER. However, we do have a lot of 4GL code with FORMS (*.per) that will stop working with SQL SERVER as the back-end. 1. We are thinking of a complete re-design of our 4GL application but this is going to be a huge task. 2. We have also looked at 4Js but the bosses do not seem to want to throw money at this product (as they just want to get rid of all the 4GL altogether and move to SQL SERVER and start using .net technologies and JAVA etc etc ....) However, we (sneakers !!!) are also looking at other alternatives and if there anyone out there who has migrated from Informix to SQL and who would like to share with us their success story.... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lovells is an international law firm. In the event of any technical difficulty with this email, please contact the sender or the London Technology Department on +44 (0) 20 7296 2000.
Why? -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche From: "Charles, Emma" <Emma.Charles@lovells.com> > >We are actually looking at moving all our custom applications and reports >from Informix to SQL SERVER. _________________________________________________________________ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband
You might want to consider holding off for just a bit. You will be able to access db2 with 4gl and esql/c in the not too very distant future. In the meantime, Informix should be great. db2 will run on the same platform as SQLServer (as well as sveeral others), and be more robust as well as more configurable, and puportedly faster. cheers j. > > From: "Charles, Emma" <Emma.Charles@lovells.com> > Date: 2003/09/29 Mon AM 11:24:22 CDT > To: ids@iiug.org > Subject: Migrating from Informix to SQL SERVER [1948] > >
Hi Charles I request you to work on informix with .net /java 4gl is best product of informix . since design of old application is still working fine. migrated from Informix to SQL will take more time then have same application migrated to java or .net with same database design HITEN .S.BHAWSAR INFORMIX DBA -----Original Message----- From: Charles, Emma [mailto:Emma.Charles@lovells.com] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 9:54 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: Migrating from Informix to SQL SERVER [1948] CONFIDENTIALITY. This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. ---------------------------------------------------------------- We are actually looking at moving all our custom applications and reports from Informix to SQL SERVER. However, we do have a lot of 4GL code with FORMS (*.per) that will stop working with SQL SERVER as the back-end. 1. We are thinking of a complete re-design of our 4GL application but this is going to be a huge task. 2. We have also looked at 4Js but the bosses do not seem to want to throw money at this product (as they just want to get rid of all the 4GL altogether and move to SQL SERVER and start using .net technologies and JAVA etc etc ....) However, we (sneakers !!!) are also looking at other alternatives and if there anyone out there who has migrated from Informix to SQL and who would like to share with us their success story.... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lovells is an international law firm. In the event of any technical difficulty with this email, please contact the sender or the London Technology Department on +44 (0) 20 7296 2000.