nicolas@csi.forth.gr (Nicolas Chrissakis) (03/29/91)
Dear Database experts, I am looking for comments on the Unify Accell 4GL language and on the other tools that Unify sales. I like very much the idea that my application becames database vendor independent. They claim that if I write programs with their 4GL, that it will run on Oracle, Infromix, Sybase and Unify. Is this true? Does it work realy? Can you design serious applications? Thank you for any help or pointers. Regards Nicolas Chrissakis Office: +30 81 229368, 229302,221171,229346 Systems Analyst Fax : +30 81 229343, 229342 Foundation of Research Telex : 262389 CCI GR and Technology - Hellas E-mail: nicolas@csi.forth.gr Institute of Computer Science NICOLAS @ ARIADNE P.O.Box 1385, Heraklio, ariadne!nicolas Crete Greece 711 10
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) (04/05/91)
As quoted from <1712@ariadne.csi.forth.GR> by nicolas@csi.forth.gr (Nicolas Chrissakis): +--------------- | I am looking for comments on the Unify Accell 4GL language and on the | other tools that Unify sales. I like very much the idea that my application | becames database vendor independent. They claim that if I write programs | with their 4GL, that it will run on Oracle, Infromix, Sybase and Unify. | Is this true? Does it work realy? Can you design serious applications? +--------------- I'm still trying to convince my boss to get one of the other Accell packages so I can try it out myself (it would help if the non-Unify-2000-based packages didn't cost as much without the database as the Unify 2000 one *with* the database!), so I have no concrete evidence. But I've read their porting guide, and it certainly looks possible. You do need to restrict yourself to a subset of Accell's capabilities, because not all the host DBMS's support all of Accell's features. But I didn't see any glaring problems. (If someone has a free demo copy of Accell/Informix to send me, I'll be glad to try it out and report back on it. :-) ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery Ham: KB8JRR/AA on 2m, 220, 440, 1200 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG (QRT on HF until local problems fixed) America OnLine: KB8JRR // Delphi: ALLBERY AMPR: kb8jrr.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery KB8JRR @ WA8BXN.OH
cookdl@stat.appstate.edu (04/17/91)
In article <1712@ariadne.csi.forth.GR>, nicolas@csi.forth.gr (Nicolas Chrissakis) writes: > Dear Database experts, > > I am looking for comments on the Unify Accell 4GL language and on the > other tools that Unify sales. I like very much the idea that my application > becames database vendor independent. They claim that if I write programs > with their 4GL, that it will run on Oracle, Infromix, Sybase and Unify. > Is this true? Does it work realy? Can you design serious applications? > > Thank you for any help or pointers. > > Regards > Nicolas Chrissakis Office: +30 81 229368, 229302,221171,229346 > Systems Analyst Fax : +30 81 229343, 229342 > Foundation of Research Telex : 262389 CCI GR > and Technology - Hellas E-mail: nicolas@csi.forth.gr > Institute of Computer Science NICOLAS @ ARIADNE > P.O.Box 1385, Heraklio, ariadne!nicolas > Crete Greece 711 10 It is possible that your 4GL will run on the other databases. Unify has a product called ACCELL SQL thsupposedly will run on the other databases. We are using ACCELL IDS. So far I have been very pleased with it. There is the Unify 'C' package that comes with it where you can write your own C programs or you can use their 4GL language. We updated to the SQL package but it is mainly for very large databases and is much more complicated to use. It was a little more than we needed so we stuck with the IDS package. So far I have been able to do everything i have needed to.