Basic questions

[Kem Tekinay]

On 5/10/03 3:37 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin at sunshine at public.kherson.ua wrote:

> Have 4D claim that 4D 2003 is e.g. 10 times faster on search/sort
> than 4D 6.7?

They say it's faster, but no actual numbers are given. But aren't the
benchmarks based on v.6.0?

> For example I recall, one have told that he love Object-Oriented language of
> RB and OO design of Valentina for RB, comparing to procedural language of
> 4D.

Yes, this is exactly the reason I was considering RB/VB, and I may still use
it for part of the project. But the thing that really has me leaning towards
4D is the integrated web server stuff. Combining the web server with the
database, and being able to distribute the web server using 4D Clients (new
for 2003; Richard, did you know about this?) is really compelling. If I
wanted to do this in RB, I'd either have to find a way to integrate it with
an external web server or roll my own.

Ruslan, I thank you for the information, but I have to agree with much of
Richard's analysis in this case. I look forward to future projects where I
know that Valentina will be the proper choice.

In the meantime, if you still have your 4D and Valentina test apps and would
like me to run them with the latest updates, I'll be happy to do that. Heck,
while you're at it, send me the FileMaker app and I'll test that on 6.0 too.

__________________________________________________________________________
Kem Tekinay                                                 (212) 201-1465
MacTechnologies Consulting                              Fax (914) 242-7294
545 Eighth Avenue, Suite 401                          Pager (917) 491-5546
New York, New York 10018                    http://www.mactechnologies.com

To join the MacTechnologies Consulting mailing list, send an e-mail to:
  mactechnologies_consulting-subscribe at yahoogroups.com