Re: I-Connect Questions
Posted in 1997
Topics: Connectivity: ODBC / JDBC / .NET, Server Administration, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life
Joe Lumbley wrote:
>
> David Williams (djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> : In article <jlumbleyEALIE7.EM7@netcom.com>, Joe Lumbley
> : <jlumbley@netcom.com> writes
> <snip>
>
> : >
> : Bacause dbaccess it character based i.e. out of date. The client
> : machine should use ODBC and GUI tools...
>
> Bull.
> This is the same argument that Informix got thrashed over after they
> announced a premature end-of-life to their character-based tools.
> If this is the thinking, they should drop all of their UNIX products
> that are character-based and go for X-Window tools on UNIX.
>
> Or, they could build a GUI dbaccess and include ***that*** :)
>
> Joe
>
Amen.
:-)
And why not use NewEra to create it? :-)
( BTW, DBExplorer is nice, but requires more steps to get the same
information as dbaccess can provide. )
> : >Joe
> : >
> : >: Thanks!
> : >: --
> : >: Tony Marasco
> : >: http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us mailto:tonmar@berksiu.k12.pa.us
>
> : --
> : David Williams
> --
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> Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com)
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