Re: Strw Poll : I-4GL for NT
Posted in 1997
Nils Myklebust wrote: > ..... > > If I have an application created in Informix 4GL and my customers > demand to use Windows NT, or they will not by it, I have a problem. If > I haven't allready rewritten it in some other language so it will run > on NT, it's highly likely it will take too long to do it now. If there > is a way to make the 4GL application run on Windows NT with a simple > recompile and possibly some minor tweeking that may be a good idea. We faced the same problem. And you're right,the customer wil not by it. Apart from all the religiuos discussion about unix, NT etc, we searched and found a solution in a product called 4JS (www.4js.com). It may not be perfect, but it gave us the opportunity to port aur applications fast to NT without to much rewriting. Give it a look. Guy