Re: Informix Datablades - better than other WEb-DB middleware

In article <01bc9201$87c1d120$910101c0@bis005003> "Allen Graetz" <allengraetz@usa.net> writes: > >I'm in the process of writing an evaluation of Allaire's Cold Fusion and >Borland's IntraBuilder. One point that I would like to make concerns >Informix datablades. From what I've seen, it seems that as the datablade >technology matures, it will likely end up being a better solution than a >program like Cold Fusion or IntraBuilder. > >My problem is that this is what I gather from some things I've read here >and there. It's not from looking into the datablade products in-depth. >Does anyone have any comments about them? Has anyone already worked with >them? If so, what did you think of them? > >Thanx for any and all feedback. The book "Database Backed Web Sites" (ISBN 1-56276-530-2) is worth a read. Greenspun has comments on the Web datablade and they're not favourable. Apparently the text is online (in some form). try http://webtravel.org/webtravel/ and look for the connecting links. I can't offhand find the exact URL. I liked this book. Greenspun is an iconoclast. Peter Wiley