Re: Fear and Loathing in Chicago... CDI Update.

On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Nils Myklebust wrote: } Mike Segel <mikey@segel.com> wrote: } } ...the interesting stuff deleted...??? } } :The focus of today was Nyles trying to determine if New Era is } :really dead. I didn't get a chance to catch up with him but } :he was in hot pursuit of this topic. } } The guy may mean Nils?!? (Me?) } And the pursuit is still on. } } May be, may be not. Informix isn't realy giving a lot of information } to assertain this though. } } We have all these people wanting to continue on a dead end running } Windows 3.1, and Informix seems to have buckled in. } } Whether this is the real reason for the delay of NewEra or not wasn't } easy to find out: } } 1. They may not have a releasable product (to be called 2.5 or } whatever). } 2. They may have become so intrenched in their super duper new engines } (they are realy in a class by themselves compared to the others - wort } and bandaid solutions according to Stonebreaker) that they forget most } people are looking at other things in tools right now. } 3. They may not understand the tools bussiness all that well yet. } } Two years ago, when NewEra was introduced, they sertanly didn't have a } clue about many of the most obvious requirements. They did however } understand that application partitioning was the clue to gain a } foothold and promised that. } Last year they introduced version 2 where application partitioning } where possible (but not simple), fixed some bugs, and now promised } some of the obvious features they didn't grasp the year before. } Release schedule for these features was january 1997 or something like } that if I don't remember wrong. } Now they still haven't given us these features, and "promise" them for } december 1997?? } } Now there isn't much wrong with their plans for NewEra. Whether that } will make much of a difference I don't know yet. Without a 2.5 release } now it will be hard, but still possible. } } I am evaluating, and plan to write some more about it. If I do I may } make it available here, or at least post info on how to get it if } anyone are interested. } } } Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no } NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway } My opinions are those of my company } Nils, et al. Sorry about the bandwidth, but this is something worth pursuing. I think you are right: Best for Informix to stick to what they know and do well. Nevertheless, the tools people like Powerbuilder etc. are just catching on to partitioning. Powerbuilder seems to have buffering problems; Delphi is fast but very new. It's interesting to see that Java or something like it (Kaffe?) may become a kind of Gui universal language; so possibly it will be a matter of seeing who offers the best Java toolkit and integrated development environment. Yours, Nick ********************************* Nick Nobbe, Library of Congress NLS/BPH mail: nnob@loc.gov *********************************