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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Looking for comments on Unify's Accell 4GL and other tools
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.005100.17560@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 5 Apr 91 00:51:00 GMT
References: <1712@ariadne.csi.forth.GR>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
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As quoted from <1712@ariadne.csi.forth.GR> by nicolas@csi.forth.gr (Nicolas Chrissakis):
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| 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
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