| Title: | FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS |
| Moderator: | ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE |
| Created: | Thu Feb 19 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 615 |
| Total number of notes: | 1779 |
My Customer, Shared Medical Systems, an OEM of Digital is currently
using DTR for the report writer functionality with their product
Allegra. They are considering switching to FOCUS but first would
like to get some information on how FOCUS and DTR compare with the
report writer functionality in terms of functionality and performance.
Can anyone help me with this or point me to some information. I
am a database person and really don't know much about either of
them.
Thanks,
Rita Mines
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| 437.1 | for me | USMFG::BHYNES | Fri Jul 19 1991 13:42 | 7 | |
Speaking only for myself, I currently write Focus procedures for
the USDS group and find it easyer than our internal programming
products. For me, functionality wise it takes less code with focus
to produce what is needed for formatted output, performance wise
I don't know.
bob
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| 437.2 | twwo cents worth | MILPND::MADDEN | Fri Jul 19 1991 16:16 | 7 | |
I don't know of any specific studies comparing Focus and DTR but the
fact is that Focus is considered the premier 4GL in the industry
as evidenced by numerous industry awards, number of users, number
of licenses; and report writing is considered its forte. In
addition it runs on just about any hardware platform out there,
including UNIX and PC's. Shared Medical may be interested in
IBI's run-time licensing and marketing/coop program.
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