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[Michael Reade]

Richard,

Thanks for your reply.  I guess the questions I have are:

1) Which is a faster development environment, RB or RR?

2) Which provides better tools for connecting to a database and manipulating
the information, such as reports, adding and editing records?

Thanks, 

Michael



on 3/18/04 12:33 PM, Richard Gaskin at ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote:

> Michael Reade wrote:
> 
>> I've been a Filemaker developer for a few years, and am looking for a
>> development environment to connect to a backend (Openbase, MySQL, something
>> like that).
>> 
>> I started to pick up RealBasic, and then I heard of RunRev. I read an white
>> paper by Geoff Canyon, from September 2001, which was very informative, but
>> a bit old.
>> 
>> I appreciate it if anyone can direct me towards any recent literature, or
>> might want to forward any opinions, regarding RunRev x RealBasic, and RunRev
>> connecting to databases.
> 
> I'm not familiar with any newer comparisons betweeen RR and RB; with RB
> being such a lower-level language it seems there's little interest in
> such comparisons in either camp.
> 
> But if you're asking about using Rev with DBMSs, you've come to the
> right place.  Folks here connect Rev to everything from Valentina to
> MySQL to Oracle, locally, LAN, and WAN.
> 
> What sort of info are you looking for?