Re: Yahoo - Informix Revitalizes 4GL Application Development Tools
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------88770A0E1F58002DBFBE679A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark D. Stock wrote: > Ing. Melvin Perez Cedano wrote: > > > > I'm a little confuse, because according with the category assigned to > > INFORMIX-4GL in the Products Life Cycle, it is a dead product in terms > > of development new features. Is Informix blind-searching the way to > > start up? > > I don't remember the 'dead product' level in the Product Life Cycle. > Ok, there's no 'dead product' category in the Product Life Cycle, but there's a category 2, which as you surely know doesn't include any development of new features, only maintenance releases. From informix web site: Category Two: Full Maintenance 1. Maintenance-only releases, including defect fixes, are scheduled within the next year. Ok. 2. Customer feature requests will be considered for inclusion into this product's successor within the product family. What's the INFORMIX-4GL's successor? New-Era, right? What's the INFORMIX-NewEra Category? the same of 4GL (2) any comments? 3. Product is for sale. Ok 4. Standard support programs can be initiated. Ok. If you don't think that this is a dead product, could you tell me any feature included in 4GL since version 4.11? > A product is not dead until Informix either sells it off (which means it > gets a re-birth with another company) or stops supporting it. I don't > believe either of these apply to 4GL. > Ok. but I wrote 'in terms of development of new features' > > It's too late!!! > > For you maybe, but not for the thousands of 4GL users out there. > Are you sure of this?How much Informix sold in the tools market for new developments? I think that Informix abandoned those thousands of 4GL users, including me, because we have not received any enhancements, just same to continue maintaining existing applications. Do you think that anyone could evaluate INFORMIX-4GL for new developments? What 4GL offers for GUI, Client-Server, Intranet applications? > > Informix, is now when you realize that there's a big market using > > INFORMIX-4GL waiting for a real solution for migrating to new > > environments (client/server, intranet)? > > I think the realisation that 4GL had a big market came a few years ago. > IMHO, I don't think so!What Informix offers for migration of those millions of line of 4GL code to new technology? Informix tried to move to the client-server/GUI world two times, without success: INFORMIX-4GL for Windows and INFORMIX-NewEra. Have you used any of them? INFORMIX realized that is a database company, not a tool one!! but, what about those thousand of INFORMIX-4GL users? > > Anyway, I'm still being a real Informixer! > > Mmmm, that's one term, there are others. :-) > > Cheers, > -- > Mark. > > +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ > |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| > |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| > | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| > | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| > | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| > |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| > +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+ --------------88770A0E1F58002DBFBE679A Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Melvin Perez Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Melvin Perez n: Perez;Melvin org: CAM Informatica. S. A. email;internet: cam@codetel.net.do title: Technical Vicepresident tel;work: (809) 686-5574 tel;fax: (809) 686-5467 tel;home: (809) 227-2893 x-mozilla-cpt: ;-960 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------88770A0E1F58002DBFBE679A--