Re: WO vs. 4D

On 18/09/2005, at 9:36 PM, Gaastra Dennis - WO Lists wrote:

> We need to know why WO is a much better solution than 4D for  
> developing/deploying web-based applications. Since we are a pure WO  
> shop and have no experience with 4D, it would be nice to get some  
> insights from those that do have some experience with 4D as well as  
> WO - for a fair comparison. We are proposing WO to an all mac-based  
> client who is currently using 4D. They, however, prefer to web- 
> enable their applications - still - using 4D. WO is always known to  
> be faster, better, and more cost-effective; but we need to convince  
> them why.

We use both development environments here, and comparing the two is a  
little like saying a car is better than a bowl of soup. It really  
depends on what you are trying to do. 4D is a very fast environment  
to program in. Quite complex systems can be developed in very little  
time. But it doesn't scale well and the web tools are very  
simplistic. But it depends on what they want to do.

We've developed a number of sites where we replicate data between WO/ 
mysql and 4D using SOAP. That way we have the best of both worlds: a  
great client/server internal system in 4D and a great web development  
platform with WO, the former inside the client's office and the  
latter in a data centre.

Ari Maniatis




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