Re: Development tool recommendations sought

Joe Panico wrote: >You should take a look at NeXT's Enterprise Objects Framework. It's >a layer of software that will sit on top of an Oracle, Sybase, or >Informix server and allow the developer to handle the information as >true Objects, rather than as tables/rows and SQL queries. It is very >powerful and allows very rapid development cycles. A number of >large companies are using it (Swissbank, Chrysler, MCI, etc.) >The dowside is that >you must be running in some type of NeXT environement. At the moment, >this >means running NeXTSTEP on Intel, Sparc or HPPA architectures. But by >mid-year >96 the OpenStep ports to many OSs should be complete, at which time >you >will be able to use EOF under Windows NT/ Solaris/ DEC OSF1/HP/UX and >hopefully Linux as well if the GNUStep developers can pull it off. >For more information see the white pages concerning EOF at > http://www.next.com If I'm not mistaken, this stuff forms the foundation of the Gentium OLAP product, by Planning Sciences. Steve Elkins