Re: NewEra 3 (was: X Interface to INFORMIX ???)

> kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz (Kerry Sainsbury) writes: > so here's some information I picked up: > > - NE 3.0 will not support Motif. It will be Win95 (NT too I guess) only. That's fine with me (contrary to some other info here reasantly though), but: any idea about how they intend to support application partitioning on Unix/Windows NT servers? > - There was talk of some sort of compatability "class library" which > would let NE3.0 apps run under Win 3.11 though. A dead issue very soon, but no problem if it doesn't slow down their progress in other important areas. > - NE 3.something will generate Java code as well as (?) C++. This ties in > with the Illustra/Universal Server product, where the DataBlade functions > can be written in C++ or Java. Greater and greater if they can release it reasonably fast. > - NE 3.0 *looks* pretty (based on a ScreenCam I studied), and the new WP > apparently *does* understand your own classes (yay!). And OCX's? (In 3.1?) > - CodeWright featured in the ScreenCam, but it's not really an *integrated* > development environment. To bad. What about a class browser? They have said something earlier about integration with some ODBMS for this purpose. Is this still on, or are they planning to use Illustra/Universal server. > I'm sure looking forward to experimenting with it once it lands. The same. Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM Data AS, Postbox 9090, Gronland, 0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company