-----Original Message-----
From:   Garvin Downes [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, June 24, 1998 6:54 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: SPEEDWARE

> Barry Durand writes :
>
> We are an Amisys shop and saw a demo of Speedware today.   (snip -
> snip)

> 1.  Is it really as good as it seems or will it fall to pieces later?
[Charles H. Finley]  If Speedware is used properly, it is as good as it seems.
It's more than a language, it is a development environment.  It allows
you to work at an extremely high level in order to develop portable
applications, platform independent applications.  It has other, optional
extensions that allow for Web deployment and development and
migration to client/server. I know some people who have developed
almost exclusively in Speedware for the last 7 or 8 years.   I am
copying them on this e-mail, please contact them if you like.  Neither
they nor I work for Speedware.

When it is misused, it is when developers don't use the power of the
tool.  Instead, the write 3GL code with a 4GL tool.