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From: mitch@Stride.COM (Thomas Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ZIM vs PROGRESS
Keywords: ZIM, Progress, 4GL, RDBMS
Message-ID: <803@stride.Stride.COM>
Date: 1 Jul 88 17:45:04 GMT
References: <5136@dasys1.UUCP> <383@dasher.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: mitch@stride.stride.com.UUCP (Thomas Mitchell)
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>In article <5136@dasys1.UUCP> tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) writes:
>>     In evaluating 4GL/RDBMS products available for Xenix 386, with an 
>> management/production database system, I've come down to a choice 
>> between ZIM and Progress...  and right now I'm leaning toward ZIM, for 

I just had a 10 min tour of ZIM at one of our product shows.  I
was impressed with the clarity of the language that the presenter
used to describe his sample relational data base.  The relations
between various records and files were very cleanly presented.
Some of this was the presenter to be sure but much was also the
underlying product.

I wish I had the time to play with both.  I expect I would be a
better programmer for working in ZIM -- even if another product
was selected for production work. 

>    Is ZIM portable to other platforms?  
The NCR binary ran fine on our Stride.  This indicates that the
code is rather clean and portable.


Thomas P. Mitchell (mitch@stride1.Stride.COM)
Phone: (702)322-6868	TWX: 910-395-6073	FAX: (702)322-7975
MicroSage Computer Systems Inc.
Opinions expressed are probably mine. 




-- 
Thomas P. Mitchell (mitch@stride1.Stride.COM)
Phone: (702)322-6868	TWX: 910-395-6073	FAX: (702)322-7975
MicroSage Computer Systems Inc.
Opinions expressed are probably mine.