Hi Baker, There's no way to respond to this that doesn't sound like an ad, so I marked the response as an ad...
We have multiple product lines and numerous customers who do various types of GUI interfaces to MV, with some great successes in the list. Most of our larger customers that do these things have built out a Data Access Layer (in accordance with industry best practices) and usually have a web service layer that abstracts this out. Some smaller customers have munged the data access and GUI together, which given their size, and the relative simplicity of their required solution, is quite appropriate. FusionWare's Direct product line allows you to map your MV database once, and access that mapped layer (or any PICK/BASIC stored procedures) from either Java, C#, C++, PHP or any number of other environments. We have had customers that have moved between different database offerings, and the client access layer (apart from connection strings) has not had to change. We have customers accessing their MultiValue databases from Java, .NET 3.5, various app servers and dev environments. We have customers on: - Universe (back as far as Universe 5) - Unidata - PI/Open - D3 - mvEnterprise - mvBase - Reality And many other platforms. We basically run on any MV platform. Our MV products, services and customers go back to the early 1990s when we participated in the original ODBC specifications (we were involved when it was still just the SQL Access Group's Call Level Interface.) We have numerous customers that we have been involved with for integration projects, through various companies, going back 15 years or more. We have at least one that goes back to the mid 1980s. More information on our products and services is available at http://www.fwic.net. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 10:16 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] Quick poll - how many use 3-tier or N-tier Architecture Would those of you mind responding that use 3-Tier or N-Tier architecture - I'm trying to gather some quick numbers for some decision makers (somewhat urgent). Please respond if your site, or sites who you service have UniData, UniVerse, or any other MV db on the backend, and any fully graphical user interface: a. How many have a middle-tier application server? b. How many use IBM Websphere? c. How many use some other? Please give product name if you can. d. How many have a Java front end User Interface? e. How many have a C# front end User Interface? f. How many have other UI? Please give name. For anyone - what Multi-Value aware / friendly middleware products are there? (That don't require data normalization before sending to the middleware.) Thank you so much, -Baker ________________________________ This communication, its contents and any file attachments transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential proprietary information. Access by any other party without the express written permission of the sender is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this communication in error you may not copy, distribute or use the contents, attachments or information in any way. Please destroy it and contact the sender. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
