Re: Comparisons of SQL/Windows and Ingres OpenRoad wanted

In article <youngn-2306951321030001_at_158.234.17.99> youngn_at_logica.co.uk (Nicholas Young) writes:

>If anyone has an experience with both of these tools, I'd be grateful for
>any info on how they compare with one another. I'm trying to determine
>which to recommend to a client, probably with an Oracle database.

As a result of the desktop strategy work I've been doing for Barclays (a major Ingres user) I've seen some of the results of OpenRoad. Here are some of the bad points:

• No DDE support
• No OLE support
• No clipboard support
• No ODBC support
• No VBX support
• No OCX support

The only way of integrating is via DLLs (which it does support). OpenROAD's main development platform is now Windows NT (it used to be UNIX/Motif), but it has only recently made the transition and as a PC-based GUI tool it looks pretty awful. VB, Delphi, SQLWindows have far better development environments. Now the good points:

• ummmm, I'm sure there were a couple

>(I believe that OpenRoad is simply the new name for Ingres/Windows 4GL,>but
please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Open Road is the new name for Ingres Windows 4GL

>Many thanks for any help, including pointers to any industry reports,
>Nicholas.
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Jerry Nichols
GMS/3 x5052 Received on Mon Jun 26 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST