Re: Development tools: where to? (Long)

sdurity@cornercap.com wrote: > I have followed a similar path, except substitute Notes/Domino > development for EGL (EGL wasn't out at the time). Notes development is > pretty nice, if you can learn the quirks and terminology of Notes. The > problem was with LEI - the integration to Informix. At the time I > tried, it didn't work well or scale. I had Domino on Linux and LEI was > newly available for Linux. Informix connection was not well supported. > That may have changed by now. > > We are trying a .Net framework for building smart client applications > called IdeaBlade (www.ideablade.com). It doesn't run on Linux, but it > has worked with Informix (on Linux) so far. It can do off-line caching, > business object server caching, etc. They seem to be a great company to > work with, too. We'll see. I go for training in late October. I need to > have significant progress on my application before the end of the year. > If they can do that, I'll sing their praises. > > BTW - Visual Studio .Net isn't a terrible IDE. They are behind some of > the Java IDEs on some features, but ahead in others. And the newest > version is due out in a few months. > > Aside - Look at the other data access frameworks for .Net (free or > otherwise). I haven't found one that claims Informix support. > My two cents worth ... For front end apps Borland's products (Delphi, C++ Builder, Kylix) - from what I can remember - are not too bad for development, in my opinion beats ODBC hands down .... Anton