Re: Dev. Tools for Informix based apps

Billy, I like NewEra. I just haven't had an opportunity to use it lately. In fact I don't even have the latest version. What are you using it for these days? Perry Dillard Shop Floor Solutions, Inc. On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 08:02:03 +0200, "Billy Wheeler" <billy@west.co.za> wrote: > >On 3 Mar 98 at 16:07, Peter Eckhardt wrote: > >> We are going to develop a medium sized (200 seats) in house >> application. It will cover the complete document >> management, logistics and communication functions requiered. >> The server side is Informix 7.22 on a Unix machine the clients >> are running NT 4.0. The new app should have a GUI, at the time >> we have a terminal based interface. >> >> First approach was to use "low level" tools such as Borland >> Delphi. But the estimated times to develop a reliable product >> with these tools seems to become too long and support will >> probably become a nightmare ... >> >> Now i am looking into Unify/Vision and Magic 8. Does anyone >> have experience with these tools ? What other tools are available ? > >My initial and very brief look left me largely unimpressed by Unify >Vision. I can't comment on Magic. You could also investigate >(horrors) Oracle's Developer/2000 which handles ChUI and GUI off the >same source code. And then there's Informix-NewEra, which I like but >nobody else here does... :-) > >You are (I suspect) fairly limited in your choices by requiring a >ChUI/GUI tool. It might be better to plump for a GUI across the >board. ChUI/GUI tools always lose something in the translation from >GUI to ChUI. > >HTH. > >-- > >/Ciao, >\\Billy >/ >\\Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za >/ Chairman, South African Informix User Group: http://www.west.co.za/~saiug >\\ Informix FAQ @ http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html >/ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ >\\________________________________________________________________________________________________