Re: WingZ - nobody knows ???

In comp.databases.informix, spitz@GAN03X (Richard Spitz) writes: >Brian O'Sullivan (bosulliv@mitre.org) wrote: >: I've become increasingly frustrated with Informix for the way they >: have dragged this out. We met with our sales rep & VP sales in early >: November to discuss our concern that Informix would not continue to >: support us Mac users. We were promised an answer by Thanksgiving. >: Well, it's almost Chistmas and still no answer. > >: "Waiting for the Wingz...", > >I can only second Brian's feelings about WingZ/Hyperscript on the Macintosh. > >The main reason we decided to go for WingZ as a graphical frontend for >Informix databases was its availability for X/Motif, MS-Windows and >Mac (and, of course, Datalink). High hopes were raised with the announce- >ment of new WingZ 2.0 and HST, but all we have now is vaporware. > >So what's the deal? > >Happy Holidays, >Richard >-- I feel the same way. I too use Wingz, Hyperscript, and Datalink on my SGI system as a quick front-end development environment. I was also pleased to find that much of my Wingz wkz's and scripts ported to my Mac Powerbook! If only Datalink were developed to allow external calls outside the Wingz environment AND run on Mac's. As I presently understand it, data and system calls cannot be passed out from Wingz/DataLink with any mechanism for return. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this. I don't use the charting/plotting capabilities of either Wingz or Excel because the graphics part (not the boolean and stats math part) are too primitive to be of much use to me. I'm hoping Informix' ViewPoint and evolved HyperScript Tools will port to Macs, DECS, Suns, and SGI's AND will have I/O (and socket) enhancements. Lee Clarke lclarke@oasys.dt.navy.mil CD, NSWC, Bethesda, MD "Opinions are my own"