Re: NewEra to exploit Universal Server (fwd)

In article <4riped$j8i@nic.global-one.no>, Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no (Nils Myklebust) wrote: >BUT: We are talking about a half year delay. That's become a very >long time in this bussiness. And in 6 months there will be more buzzwords which would be good if NewEra supported -- should NE 3.0 be delayed even longer to get those new features into 3.0? Today I want to know how NE plans to integrate with Java (and what are Informix's plans re: JDBC btw?). By December I might well be *demanding* tight integration. Informix need to ship something with a decent development environment and a modern GUI look ASAP. Support for Illustra is just a niceity that the vast majority of Informix users simply are NOT waiting for. >For those who have finished NewEra >applications it may not take to long to move them to the new version >but we are talking about sometime in 1997 even for these. The longer the delay till NE 3.0, the smaller penetration NE will make into the world at large. Developers can't wait that long. >Corinne wrote: >:NewEra is intended to support the Datablade technology that will be >:utilized in Universal Server. Hence, real tight coupling for any >:data type the market can dream up. The claim that 3.0 is "important" >:is very true...so why wait another year to integrate something that >:provides incredible extensibility? Why wait? Because most business processing only needs simple characters and numbers. Our customers don't *need* us to "dream up" data types. Waiting another year would be fine. If your business is really sticking with Win3.1 instead of going to Win95 do you really think they'll be tossing out Online in favour of Illustra? >:That's something I don't believe >:ANY other vendor -- tool or database -- can offer as a "today" >:solution. I'd call that thinking ahead. NE isn't a "today" solution! NE 2.0 is a "yesterday" solution. NE 3.0 is a "tomorrow" solution. Release a 2.5 and stand a chance. ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.5 June 96 Quanta Systems, Auckland | http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/ New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | ftp://ftp.iiug.org/pub/informix/faq Home: +64 9 279-3571 | ftp://kcbbs.gen.nz:/pub/informix/