Re: help! i am trapped with informix

In article <343B5D7C.8EB891C4_at_ix.netcom.com>, killougd_at_ix.netcom.com says...

>we are thinking of putting applications in addition to Oracle on it.

You'll be very sorry. Even if 1/3 of the PC's are concurrent users of your app, you be spending night and day tuning the Oracle database. You won't have any time to mess with something else. Put it on another machine.

>I never want to be stuck with proprietary development tools again! I
 have a
>mess with informix-4gl. I like Java for this reason.

Even if you use Java, the minute you use SQL or a database class library you're proprietary. Non-propreitary tools do not exist today. You originally mentioned D/D 2000, PB/PJ, and VB. These are all proprietary tools. Everything you develop with them cannot be imported to the next tool when you decide to make a switch down the road.

All three you suggest fail more than the openness criteria you asked for. The only way these will run under Unix is Windows emulators and you'll find that quite buggy and a horrible performer. D/D2000 fails both state of the art and good price. (and happens to be the most propretary of them all)

You'd be much better off doing more research to find a tool to really provide for your business needs rather than getting into a theoretical/architectural arguement. Received on Sat Oct 11 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST