Hmm, I'm guessing what's behind the question is the need to respond to the usual 'this is a legacy text based system' nonsense. If I'm wrong in that, please forgive the following soapbox!
I haven't written text based stuff in years (unless I have no choice), so practically every system I've worked on in the last 10 - 15 years has been client/server or web - whether that's been VB, Delphi, ASP or .Net, using UniObjects, UO.Net, RedBack or equivalents. Point is - these things have been around a long time. For those who bang on about the perceived lack of front end development tools for U2 (and you know who you are!) it's worth pointing out that U2 has an excellent IDE - it's called Visual Studio. No different in that respect to SQL Server.. except the combination of UO.net and UniVerse Basic is often much neater - and for complex operations, quicker - than the equivalent SQL Client/TSQL/SQL CLR combinations <grin>. If UniVerse Basic looks old-fashioned, just look at the average TSQL procedure: sexy it ain't. And the great advantage of U2 is that you *don't need* traditional n-tier - your Business Logic (BL) tier belongs in the database. In fact, I prefer not to think about U2 as a database. It's much more appropriate to legitimately present U2 as a business engine - one in which BL, DAL and data storage layers are all resident in the same space. Which is a huge saving in efficiency. Brian _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
