Re: Alternatives to VPPRO

In article <4cfh31$fg3@news.informix.com>, <geoffr@informix.com> writes: > Path: triada!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!informix.com!informix.com!news > From: Geoff Roach <geoffr@informix.com> > Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix > Subject: Re: Alternatives to VPPRO > Date: 4 Jan 1996 03:21:05 GMT > Organization: Informix Software, Inc. Menlo Park, CA 94025 > Lines: 8 > Message-ID: <4cfh31$fg3@news.informix.com> > References: <4buiqk$ecg@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> > NNTP-Posting-Host: sax.informix.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) > > One of the reasons that the plans for VP Pro are up in the air is that we > at Informix do not have a good idea of what people use VP Pro for. VP Pro > has two parts - the application development (queries, forms, ...) and the > DBA tools. I have heard VP Pro referred to as "graphical I-SQL". > > I would like to hear from people what parts are important. I have some > ideas, but I would like some first hand feedback. > > We are currently using Viewpoint to print production reports for our customers. I am new to Viewpoint and the application that we are using it for. However, it is taking up to 60 seconds a page to format which is totally unacceptable. Is this the best that one can expect in performance for printing reports???