On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, David Warnock wrote:

> Nataraj,
>
> > Please suggest me the best enviroment to develop a good system. I prefer to do it in Linux.
> > Is there a need to go for a OO enviroment like Delphi? Or would an API interface of IB suffice?
>
> Another option would be java, then you can develop on Linux. But if you
> don't know java there is probably too long a learning curve.
>

I have done some work in Java - developed a mail server. But very little
database or jdbc work.

> Python would be another cross platform and very rapid development tool.
>

Does Python or Java has classes or compos like tquery or ttable that can
abstract a relation.

> Both have the advantages of zero development and deployment license costs.

That's really an advantage.

regards

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Nataraj S Narayanan
Synergy Info Systems
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