Re: Symantec Cafe Pro (JAVA) Support for Informix

Yes, both Symantec and Informix are making a major blunder if they don't partner to interface each other's products. Symantec will be unable to sell Visual Cafe Pro to Informix users, and Symantec Java users will purchase other databases besides Informix. Richard --------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 23:58:56 GMT, peter@prospect.anprod.csiro.au (Peter Wiley) wrote: >Which, at this point in time, is nonexistent. > >They have drivers for Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server natively. No Informix. >I asked them, and they have no current plans to add Informix. > >Having had a *brief* play/look at the Java toolkits around, this one looks >like the best available; IMO simpler to use than NE (no VC++ for >starters). Not to mention a lot more affordable. Java looks a hell of a >lot like NE, so I like it and feel comfortable using it. Still early days >yet for building production systems, but I want to do some experimenting. > >For God's sake, Informix, get support for your servers available in these >third party tools. I do *not* want to screw around with ODBC drivers to >JDBC drivers to.... just to build database apps. -- Richard (RASchulman@worldnet.att.net) // For email reply, be sure that the anti-mass-mailer // asterisks have been removed from the "To" field.