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New developments in software are fair comment

...and scary-eyed prophets of the programming future, because they implied that 4GL were going to provide as big a leap forward in software creation... Read more

20 August, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins
SheerPower <endeca_term>4GL</endeca_term> Basic 3.4 build 18

SheerPower 4GL Basic 3.4 build 18

SheerPower 4GL is the Next Generation Programming Language for Windows. SheerPower is a full... Read more

12 May, 2003
An Introduction to ADF Best Practices

An Introduction to ADF Best Practices

...the way in opening up the enterprise Java platform to both the 4GL and Java development audience through the productive and declarative environment of Oracle... Read more

1 July, 2006
IBM Business Partner Wipro Modernizes a Financial Services System Using EGL

IBM Business Partner Wipro Modernizes a Financial Services System Using EGL

...leading financial services company in North America needed Wipro to rewrite its 4GL mission-critical application with an enhanced browser-based UI and separate presentation... Read more

8 April, 2009

SAP's ABAP/4 -- the basics

...platforms. This powerful concept sets ABAP/4 apart from most of its 4GL cousins. Pulling data items together is simply database management, and many systems... Read more

15 January, 2003 by Scott Robinson
ArtinSoft VB to .NET Migration Case Study - Freeway

ArtinSoft VB to .NET Migration Case Study - Freeway

...time about the services offered by ArtinSoft for system migration from Informix 4GL to Java. When ArtinSoft approached and offered its modernization services to .NET... Read more

1 January, 2010
R&R Marketing Connects With Customers and Staff

R&R Marketing Connects With Customers and Staff

...clients. The paper goes on to explain how LANSA's repository based 4GL development environment made things easy for R&R Marketing Read more

1 January, 2010
KLM Equipment Services Reduces Airport Costs

KLM Equipment Services Reduces Airport Costs

...finally choose Visual LANSA. The company was used to LANSA's intuitive 4GL and repository. The company found Java more complex and required low level... Read more

14 January, 2009
SAS 9.2 Enhanced Logging Facilities

SAS 9.2 Enhanced Logging Facilities

...can also exploit the enhanced logging features through the use of SAS 4GL language statements. Enhanced logging features include classifying messages according to audit, performance... Read more

19 March, 2008
RPO Automatisering Releases Advanced Software for a Fresh World

RPO Automatisering Releases Advanced Software for a Fresh World

...for the Web-based AGF/ng solution. LANSA's productive and flexible 4GL was the only AS/400 tool that offered easy integration with the... Read more

1 January, 2008
Building Event-Driven Architecture With an Enterprise Service Bus

Building Event-Driven Architecture With an Enterprise Service Bus

...Architecture (EDA). Similar to the event mechanism in, for example, JavaScript or 4GL environments where triggers - pieces of executable program code - can be hooked into... Read more

1 February, 2007
ITT-TDS Saves Money With LANSA

ITT-TDS Saves Money With LANSA

...to the existing application and it uses the same repository concept and 4GL so they can use existing LANSA skills for a Web application. With... Read more

29 November, 2006
Pixxos 4.02

Pixxos 4.02

PIXXOS is a casual to learn Internet-able multimedia-development-system (intuitive 4GL-syntax) for all areas of application on Windows 95 to XP including... Read more

8 November, 2005

The Bloor Perspective: IM compatibility, mighty Borland and QXL's turnaround

...difference being that the latter will be based on some form of 4GL or similar language, while ControlCenter is based on model-based code generation... Read more

11 November, 2002 by Bloor Research

The Bloor Perspective: Mobile Linux, crazy CEOs and an ASP success story

Industry guru Robin Bloor and his team of analysts cast their eyes back over the latest top stories to hit the industry. Under the spotlight this week: Transmeta unveils Mobile Linux; the IT industry masses on Davos; and ASP SOS goes from strength to strength. Read more

7 February, 2000 by Bloor Research

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knapper

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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