Re: 4GL standards? (was: An interesting meeting with IBM)

malcolm wrote: > It is precisely because this is such a small volume market that we > should think about the potential confusion if IBM go one-way which is > incompatible with Qerix and 4Js. Suddenly we will have many > proprietary 4GLs out there, if we haven't already. (In my original > mail I set I floated the idea in 1988, that should have read 1998.) Welllll, 4JS are listening very well to the Genero newsgroup. It's been very productive on both sides. IBM *claims* to want to work closely with users to add features to the Informix product line (from my recent meeting) so hopefully that applies to WebSphere 4GL. Sergio has indicated that the wild boys from Aubit are willing to develop and join the fun, and Querix has shown that they'll track 4JS (aka D4GL). No offence to Aubit or Querix, but I think they'll need to mostly "follow". Of course, if they have brilliant ideas then we can present them to the 2 big players and request, nay demand their inclusion. The real issue will probably be getting some sort of consistency between 4JS and IBM. Right now we have no idea what we're going to get in WebSphere. Perhaps 4JS saw something during their recent meetings with IBM. It may be that the runtime scheme of WebSphere mandates some sort of change; will we see a return to something like the NewEra event driven model? If so then there's a vast schism between the two, since 4JS have maintained the flow of 4GL classique. I'm applying a sprinkling of patience until I see WebSphere's effort, and read their TODO list.