Re: Aubit4GL & opensource

In article <1107949105.f5754e688091aa77e2f7f51a9b1bc744@teranews>, DirkM@mxgroup.co.za says... > > I saw Aubit4GL being mentioned here. Does anyone here have good > experience with this ? > What do you think of the product - good / bad ? Disclaimer: I am a contributor to Aubit project. IMHO, Aubit is about 99% replacement for Informix-4GL, when using Informix database. The remaining 1% is easier to address then they are with commercial products, thanks to the virtues of OpenSource development process, and Mike Aubury :-) Only reasonable alternative to Informix databases, without changing a lot of SQL, or writing new 4GL applications, ATM is PostgreSQL. I would estimate this is about 95% there. Of course, you can use any RDBMS, as long as you are prepared to obey limits of its functionality. To add to the list of significant successful ports of 4GL apps to Aubit compiler, let me mention OneMaxx, an OpenSource ERP and CRM application of "...extraordinary magnitude": http://apps4gl.sourceforge.net/ Aubit project expects to release a version 1.0 of Aubit 4GL compiler in about 4-5 weeks. This is a good time to try Aubit and report your feedback back to the developers. The more feedback we get, the more bugs we will fix, and the better will Aubit 1.0 release be. So what are you waiting for :-) http://aubit4gl.sourceforge.net/ "You have our gratitide!" Yours, Andrej Falout PS. Honorable mention will be awarded to the person able to identify the source of the quoted wisdom, without using Google :-)