Re: Informix: Please buy Borland
<HTML><BODY> Peter Wiley wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>In article <3328B069.2A34@netime.com> Bret Lowry <lowry@netime.com> writes: <BR> <BR>[snip] <BR> <BR><I>>themselves, they obviously don't understands Windows programming! As far</I> <BR><I>>as Access goes, it runs circles around Newera.</I> <BR> <BR>Maybe; I haven't used NE3. However, Access sucks, big-time. Try fetching <BR>30K rows with around 40 columns into Access and see what happens. Dies, <BR>big-time, on the machines I've used (Win95 with 64Mb RAM). <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE> Peter, in how many front-end programs do you expect to access that much data? I'll bet you users love to wait. Ok, uncalled for. Why is it that people always compare Access to Informix Online? Access isn't even close! If you want to compare it to something, compare it to that PC based informix SE, now that's another story. I'll try selecting that much data from SE, bet it fails too. <BR>Food for thought. Over the last 5 years I've seen many demonstrations from many different Informix employees and you know what each and every time they've been using Access as the local database. Wonder why? <BR> <BR>Bret. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BR>IMHO, there isn't yet any GUI client-side tool I'd bet a business on. <BR>Delphi comes closest. <BR> <BR>Peter Wiley </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> </BODY> </HTML>