Toward a Client/Server Model
When this book was first published in 1994, Informix's "state of the art" client/server applications were Informix-WingZ and Informix-Viewpoint. Four years later, in 1998, WingZ has been sold to another company and Viewpoint doesn't exist. An entire application development system, NewEra, has been released, upgraded twice, and is losing ground to more modern tools. Informix purchased an online analytical processing systems company and incorporated its product into its MetaCube option, which provides extended summarization and drill-down into Informix-based data warehouses.
In the same four years, the Informix database engine has seen a short-lived Version 6 followed by a continually improving Version 7, now known ...
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