I suggest you look into HP's Transact.  It is much cheaper than
Speedware,
very easy to code and you can't tell the difference in efficiency
between it
and Cobol without a microscope.

Nick D.

Tom Hula wrote:
>
> I was originally planning on converting our Protos applications to
> Speedware, along with any new programs.  We have long since
> abandoned that and still have a third-party application using
> Speedware.  My impressions are:
> - The development environment is a good example of what you would
>   find with many other 4GL's with an "object-oriented" approach.
>   They did a good job with it.  It is very similar to the
>   environment I used when I did some programming with Informix.
> - The one application we have running on our system using Speedware
>   is a drain on our entire system.  An extreme hog.  From what I
>   have heard since, this is fairly typical of Speedware applications.
>   Our existing Cobol and Protos/Cobol applications are extremely
>   efficient, taking up little in the way of resource.
> - I could get a larger box to make up for Speedware, but why should
>   I?  Cobol 85, although not as fast to develop in as some of the
>   4GL's, has many of the 4GL coding conventions built into it now
>   and is as efficient as ever.  I hope that Speedware is just a
>   bad example of what a 4GL could be.
>                 Tom Hula
>                 Victor S. Barnes
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am looking for some personal opinions on SpeedWare v6.0 to evaluate
> > if we should consider migrating some legacy in-house applications to
> > another environment.  The most of the applications are running
> > SpeedWare v6 on an HP 3000/958 MPE/XL 5.5.  There are some scattered
> > SpeedWare v5 around.  If you are using it, or have used it, here are
> > some of my questions:
> >
> > 1.  What is your overall impression with the product as compared to
> > other 4GLs?
> >
> > 2.  How well does it support web-enabled requirements?
> >
> > 3.  Where do you see SpeedWare for the long-term?  Is it an in-demand
> > product?  Or, is it being superceded by other products?  If the later,
> > which products are replacing it?
> >
> > 4.  Are SpeedWare programmers a difficult to find?
> >
> > 5.  Is there anything else I should consider?
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > LuAnne
> >
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> > Before you buy.