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Here is the problem I am trying to solve.

I write client/server applications in the SNA world where the client
machine is a PC running OS/2 or Windows. The client app makes use of
a GUI. 

I am looking for a product which is portable among these architectures
and which can speed up the development process (i.e. I don't want to
use the SDK). I would like also to limit as much as possible the C/C++
programming since the people I work with are Cobol programmers in
the mainframe environment.

I have seen some of such products but none that satisfy me.

For instance many DBMS have tools of this kind but seem oriented to be
used in conjunction with the DBMS.

Others are interpreted and seem slow.

Presently I am examining the following products:
- JAM by JYACC
- NS-DK by Nat Systems (a French company) 
- SQLWindows by GUPTA

Others have been discarded:
- Visual Basic because runs only under Windows
- Foundation by Arthur Andersen because of the astronomical cost

Do you have any comments to make and products to suggest? Consider
that our area of application is the accounting.

If I have to make the painful decision of using C or C++ which would
be a good product to use (e.g. class libraries like Common View or
Zinc, or ...). Any comments on this?

Thanks,

Luca Priorelli

PS: is there a group specifically dedicated to this type of questions?