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Subject: Re: Looking for comments on Unify's Accell 4GL and other tools
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.074056.709@stat.appstate.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 11:40:56 GMT
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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
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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.