Re: Dev. Tools for Informix based apps

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/ \\________________________________________________________________________________________________