I don't know much about RedBack. It may provide more developed tools than Uniobjects does. UO gives you libraries that you can use in your applicaitons.
>>> can you briefly describe some real world examples of what kind of applications were written with UniObjects? I use UniObjects to access data from Unidata where our main systems are. Examples; A Visual Basic application for scanning in Invoices and Checks for image archiving. I use the UO libraries in the VB application to retrieve as much informatino as possible about the document from Unidata where our financials are. The image and the information are stored in a Domino database and later, after the invoices are paid, the rest of the information is gathered using the COM version of the Uniobjects libraries in a LotusScript script. Mostly though. I use Uniobjects for Java on Linux web servers to provide PHP access to data on our Unidata system. We use web interfaces for spending analysis, work orders, crib inventory, production order analysis, and shipping, When I first started working with PICK in the 80s, we had to use a pair of programs to manually move data between the PICK ennvironment and the native file system. Now I can validate a field in a web browser against our Unidata database, in real time. This integrates the Unidata based information with information from other database systems. Very useful. Uniobjects comes on the client disk so there is nothing to buy. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
