Attention: INFORMIX Software support service

Information Systems Dept. Joint Stock Commercial Bank "BrestComBank" Brest, Republic of Belarus Attention: INFORMIX Software support service ( ...@informix.com ) Dear Sir/Madam: Our company has been Informix Software customer since 1995. The objective of our department is consistent upsizing of all developed for our company products from Clipper / Novell Netware to New Era / Informix / Unix platform. During completing the first stage of the project, we encountered a number of problems, several of which we could not be able to solve even after consulting with our suppliers ( Moscow Informix dealer firm ). We tried to obtain needed information from different sources, but since it is of greatest possible influence to mission-critical applications we develop, we decided to get it from the first hand. We are interested in an answers to the following questions: 1. Will the New Era for Windows v2.0 instrumentary enough to develop and execute both LAN applications with GUI and character-based remote terminals ? 2. What is the exact start date of supplying the VCL library for New Era v2.0 for developing character-based applications ? 3. Will we be able to build GUI and character-based applications of the same source files ( adhering while programming to some New Era predefined set of programming rules )? 4. Is there a way to execute a character-based apps on the Intel 386 DOS PC with Telnet and what additional software (Informix, SCO, C-compilers... ) should we buy, having two options : a). P-codes b). Executables Thanking in advance for your time and willingness to help, Julian Zalutsky, Management Information Systems P.S. We own licenses for the following Informix products: INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server v6.00 ser.no ... INFORMIX-4GL RDS v6.00 ser.no ... INFORMIX-NewEra v1.00 for Windows, ser.no ... INFORMIX-ESQL/C v4.10 ser.no ... INFORMIX-Inet v4.10 ser.no ... our platform is SCO OSE 3.0 R3.2 v4.2, with PC/TCP OnNet for DOS/Windows v1.2 running on client stations.