Re: Symantec Cafe Pro (JAVA) Support for Informix

In article <5ah6ie$qlo@shiva.usa.net> jcz@mgma.com (Jan C. Zawadzki) writes: >In article <32c89ee2.1678003@netnews2.worldnet.att.net>, >R*A*Schulman@worldnet.att.net says... > >>Yes, both Symantec and Informix are making a major blunder if they >>don't partner to interface each other's products. Symantec will be >>unable to sell Visual Cafe Pro to Informix users, and Symantec Java >>users will purchase other databases besides Informix. > >Do you *really* think that a $300 tool is going to affect a $40K database >buying decision? Sybase thought so, and look where it got them! Actually, I do. Given that you can use any of the 4 main DBMS servers as your back end, the major cost of a new app is the human costs in programming. If you can deliver functional code faster with one RAD tool than another, this lowers both your absolute cost (less programmer hours) and time to market. One of my projects consumed over $500K in development. Even a 20% saving when you're talking this sort of money is worth going for. Peter Wiley