Re: Wingz vs. 4GL

Posted in 1992

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Tue, 10 Mar 92 01:05:32 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!wupost!uunet!mcsun!uknet!bilpin!vlod@bilpin.co.uk From: vlod@bilpin.co.uk (vlod kalicun) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Mar9.095119.15477@bilpin.co.uk> Date: 9 Mar 92 09:51:19 GMT References: <1992Mar5.171848.5743@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> <1992Mar6.034031.6869@nas.nasa.gov> Sender: news@bilpin.co.uk (NetNews Administrator) Organization: SRL data In article <1992Mar6.034031.6869@nas.nasa.gov>, jcarter@sun204.nas.nasa.gov (John R. Carter Sr.) writes: > > WingZ - if all you really want is a spreadsheet, by all means use it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > John R. Carter, Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Informix DBA > Computer Sciences Corporation jcarter@nas.nasa.gov > Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation 415/604-3662 > NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 M/S 258-6 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I would disagree with this. WingZ can be used to talk to databases over the network and it provides a very nice front end, compared to using informix directly. You can send SQL statements over the network and access data quite nicely. Regards Vlod.