Re: New Era, VB, Delphi, PB

Oliver Townshend wrote: > > But what about application partitioning? This is not something that > > is just an academic issue - we find real uses for partitioning in > > almost every system we develop. > > > You are spot on in your comments. I have programmed in Pascal for 16 Makes a change... :-) > years so I find Delphi excellent, but each to their own. The site where > I started with New-Era had no investment whatsoever in Informix 4GL, so > it was irrelevant as an upgrade path. If there is no 4gl investment > then I would hesitate to recommend New-Era. It's important to understand NewEra's positioning to qualify this. NewEra is probably not the best tool for one-off apps, or apps on a smaller scale. However, the structure does allow for a team-oriented, large scale development. I would suggest that NewEra might grow into all-encompassing systems better than Delphi (and please, this is just an educated guess based on very little experience. I don't want to start a religious war here, Delphi users.... :-) > Application partitioning can be done with Delphi 2.0 on an NT box. See > Web-Hub for an example of this. Ahah - but this model is not as flexible as the Informix-NewEra model for partitioning. Yes, I'm sure that even VB does or will support that approach (NewEra supports it too), but the major issue (IMHO) that made partitioning desirable was the need to avoid sending huge amounts of data across the network. What is nice with NewEra is that you can have the parts that really would choke up the network sitting on the data server and not consuming any bandwidth at all. This of course assumes you have a real database server, not one of those Mickey Mouse NT things... <ducks and runs> -- Ciao, Billy +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure... | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+