Re: What Front End do you use with Informix?
On 5 Jun 98 at 17:03, Nils Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998 10:24:19 -0700, "news" <x@x.com> wrote: > > >We have developed a very complex database and have recently migrated over to > >Informix (NT) from MS Access. > > > >I'm still using MS Access as a front end because of all the nice data > >manipulation tools that come with it but I'm running into all sorts of > >problems with the ODBC translation of my SQL commands. (Mostly with sorting > >data by character based columns). > > > >Is there a more compatible front end out there with good tools for creating > >forms, manipulate data, etc..???? > > For production leve programing Java with one of the better tools > (Symantec Visual Cafe or IBM Visual Age for Java) arround that is the > best you can get for a lot of purposes. > > If your applications are simple, the amount of data will remain small > and the number of users will never be very many you can also use tools > like Visual Basic or Delphi. Appart from Visual Basic you should > however be aware that this kind of tools is geting significant > competition from Java based tools and some of them may dissapear in a > not too distant future. And make sure you look at the Informix Data Director for VB. VB's native database support is uh, um, errrrr.... If you are outgrowing the confines of VB, Delphi and Java, take a look at SuperNova ( http://www.supernova.com ). SN makes use of all the buzzwords (GUI, n-tier, web deployment, no-recompile portability) ...and it runs on all major platforms, including Linux. (heh, heh.) :-) [If I've seemed a bit rabid lately about this SN thing, please forgive me. It's just that it's been so long since I got really excited about a development tool. Or indeed anything at work.] -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________