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New Lycia™ 2.2 with WindowBuilder® Form Designer

GL forms that started out as plain text files have evolved to the rich graphical forms, easy to edit and enhance with Lycia II™. After the syntax additions in the text forms and graphical representation of the PER text form file, Querix also introduces the next generation powerful 4GL form designer based on the award winning WindowBuilder®, that imparts 4GL forms with flexibility and the freedom of customization that the 4GL language has never allowed before.

Season's Greetings from Querix

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Querix! We would like to thank our customers and business partners for constant support and feedback we were getting during the year. It gave us valuable insights on how to approach some outstanding questions in 4GL legacy facilitation and what could be improved in our tools. We managed re-think the whole process of original 4GL applications migration to modern platforms with Lycia II and will be sharing our findings early next year, so please stay tuned for updates.

LyciaWeb Beta

Lycia II Beta Development package includes a Beta version of LyciaWeb Client. Unlike LyciaDesktop, LyciaWeb does not require any additional software to be installed on the client machine to launch the applications. It is a web client based on the HTML5 and Ajax technologies which makes your 4GL applications available for a larger number of users, since any system which utilizes a web browser can run your applications via LyciaWeb. The universality of the web client makes it possible to run applications on any portable device that supports a web browser.

Is there a future for Informix 4GL applications?

Eric Vercelletto is an international expert specializing in Informix technologies since 1986. He has been an Informix Software Consultant for more than 11 years, acting as technical support, trainer and strategic accounts technical consultant. He is general manager of Begooden IT Consulting, an IBM partner that provides services on IBM Informix implementation projects such as application and database design, implementation, QA, auditing, technical support and issue management, performance tuning and training. He just published a paper on this topic.

Eric Vercelletto (also known as Mr. Benchmark) talks about 4GL

In the past, 4GL applications could only interoperate directly (without the use of SOAP) with C sources. The latest enhancement to the Lycia 4GL development language is the integration of the Java Language Interoperation. This exciting new interface provides 4GL application vendors with the ability to implement diverse software development projects by inter-operating with Java programs and modules. Java is currently the most used development platform and it is therefore no surprise, that Lycia can now fully utilize Java classes to conform with this standardization. The Java interoperational interface is based on the JNI framework which allows your native 4GL to use Java objects in the same way that Java code uses these objects. A native method can create Java objects and then inspect and use these objects to perform its tasks. 4GL can also inspect and use objects created by the Java application code. This latest addition also comes with huge economic consequences for your software management as you are now able to develop with 4GL, Java and C sources in co-existence to build powerful enterprise business applications.

Lycia II Development Update June 2011 - LyciaDesktop Graphical Theme Designer

The new generation of Lycia Graphical Clients come with a fully featured embedded Theme Designer to apply visual themes to match your personal tastes or organization's identity. This allows even for a novice to create fully fledged graphical themes for any 4gl application. It's usuage is fully graphical, simple and intuitive. No script or configuration syntax/statements must be learned or remembered.

Lycia II Beta for Linux

Following the core approach in designing products for our customers - Any OS, Any Database, Any Infrastructure - Querix Team is glad to introduce the Lycia II beta for Linux release. All the functionality of Lycia II is now available for Linux platforms as well. We are going to continue expanding Lycia II across other platforms and meanwhile looking forward to your feedback on the current release.

Lycia II Beta Release

In the end of year 2011 Querix team proudly presents the main project we have been working on for the whole year - Lycia II. We used all the available resources to deliver this beta release before the New Year. LyciaStudio is the interface to Lycia 4GL compiler which remains the core product in the Lycia II family. It is a 4GL development environment that we consider to be the optimal solution for facilitating your 4GL applications and giving you the ultimate freedom of choice between all the major operation system and databases.

Season's Greetings from Querix

Dear friends, Querix Team wishes you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Another year spent closely connected to our customers and business partners means a lot to us. We were doing our best to provide you with high-quality products and services. We are grateful for ideas, support and inspiration you were giving us during the year. This is what really drives us to move forward and take new challenges on the way of 4GL legacy integration into constantly changing world of business and technology.

Lycia II Development Update November 2011 - Lycia XML Interface

This winter, we introduced XML interface for Lycia. This innovation makes data processing simpler and significantly decreases the developer's hand writing job. XML is a mark-up language for manage structured data in documents or data stores. This structured information usually contains both, the actual data headings which describe the meaning and role of the data. The mark-up language identifies the structure of the data store and the new Lycia 4GL extensions aid you in working with them.

Lycia II Development Update August 2011 - Lycia Interoperational Java Integration

Development Update May 2010 - Error Handling

Compare to traditional / classic 4GL languages, Querix allows the developer to have much greater control over event handling with the extended behaviour of the WHENEVER ERROR statement.

Development Update April 2011 - LyciaBI

LyciaBI is an enterprise Business Intelligence suite, supporting the development of innovative and flexible Business Intelligence solutions. Thanks to it‘s wide offering of analytical tools and to ist new and intuitive user interface, LyciaBI supports day-to-day and strategic business, both at the decision-making and operational levels.

Querix 4GL Training Guide

Querix 4GL tutorial is a document developed to introduce Querix 4GL step by step in a way that is clear to both those who are experienced in programming, but want to learn 4GL and to those who have no programming experience. Unlike most of the programming language references which usually contain dry descriptions of statements, functions, and operators in alphabetic order, Querix 4GL tutorial introduces the information in logical blocks represented by chapters.

Querix 4GL Compatibility Survey

The main objective of all Querix products has always been compatibility and suitability for any development environment. In order to understand which features are of the outmost importance and should be implemented first, Querix decided to conduct a survey. In this survey the participants are free to select four languages or technologies, which functionality they would like to be included into Querix 4GL.

Querix Product Support - 2011

Information on product support for Querix development tools. The industry standard of supporting software applications is to support the two application versions released prior to the most recent version's release.

Querix Product Support - 2010

Information on product support for Querix 'Hydra4GL' Development tools customers. The industry standard of supporting software applications is to support the two application versions released prior to the most recent version's release.

Lycia, the first 4GL development suite for Apple Mac OSX 10.6

Munich –December 22, 2010 – Querix today announced the availability of Lycia™ for Apple Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) BETA, a cross-platform development tool kit and robust programming language for rapidly developing business data-driven applications for cross database and platform application development.
Querix is now the first development tools author to offer a Informix based 4GL/EsqlC development tool on the Apple Mac OS X platform.

Greetings and Happy Holidays to all!

Happy new year message from our sales and marketing director Hubert Hölzl

Development Update November 2010 - WebServices support for passing and returning of arrays

Lycia WebServcices (Client and Provider) now support passing and returning of complex multidimensional data types. In the past, WebServices did not support array handling in either direction. With the latest version, this limitation has been removed. This allows i.e. to utilize or provide a service to retrieve multi-dimensional lists of comlex data. An example would be to send a web service request to a book ware house server to receive the...

Development Update August 2008 - Application launcher menu

The complete list of all 'Embedded Application Launcher Menu Bar' functions available in Hydra4GL version 4.3.x and later.

New Querix Pricelist Now Worldwide in Euro

From the 1st January 2007, the Querix price list now applies worldwide, without exceptions, with the currency -Euro.

Querix participates in the Informix@ 'Cheetah' Beta Program

Querix took the opportunity to join the beta testing program for IBM-Informix's latest RDBMS evolution. Before tests started, it had been assumed to be just another upgrade but didn't take long to impress our QA department. Our upcoming 'Hydra4GL' release Version 4.3 will be available with full 'Cheetah' support.

Querix 4GL Workshop Events 2008

Querix modernized 4GL & ESQL/C Developer Workshop Events Diary 2008.

'Hydra4GL' Full Release Available Now

'Hydra4GL' 4.3 was released on the 6th February 2008. The Beta Testing Phase is now completed & closed.

Querix Product Support - 2009

RE: Product support for previous Querix Product Versions

'Hydra4GL' Version 4.4 Full Release Available Now

'Hydra4GL' 4.4 was released on the 1st May 2009. The Beta Testing Phase is now completed & closed.

Querix announces new U.S.A. distributorship with Oninit

Munich, June 04, 2009 Querix, Ltd. today announced additional support for U.S. customers, by partnering with Oninit in Lenexa.

Pricelist 2010

Querix has kept their prices constant for the ten consecutive year.

Querix extends U.S.A. distributorship with Advanced Data Tools

Querix, Ltd. continues the expansion of its sales, support and distribution network in North America. Querix has named Advanced Data Tools to work in cooperation with Oninit as their exclusive Lycia® distributors for USA in Feb, 2010.

MoreData Lda, Querix Distributor for Portugal

Querix, Ltd. continues the expansion of its sales, support and distribution network in Europe. Querix has named MoreData Lda as their exclusive Lycia® distributors for Portugal in Jun, 2010.

Development Update October 2006 - Dynamic Combo List Management

Dynamic Combo-Listbox, fully controlled (i.e. populated) within the 4GL code and optional field validation (Combo behaviour).

Development Update November 2007 - MakeMenu Utility

Hydra4GL allows you to create a front end application launcher menu with pull down menus. The menu structure, contents and actions can be defined using a tool (MakeMenu) which stores the data in the database or dynamically within your 4GL application code.

Development Update December 2007 - Media Resource File Management

'Hydra4GL' 4.3 supports static and dynamic media resource files. Below is some information to clarify the differences and also offer explanations of some functions used to manage the dynamic resource contents.

Development Update September 2008 - 4GL Web Service Client

Hydra4GL Version 4.31 and Lycia will support 4GL Web Service Functionalilty in the GUI clients.

Development Update October 2008 - 4GL Web Service Provider

Hydra4GL Version 4.31 and Lycia will support 4GL Web Service Provider (Server) Functionalilty.

Hydra V4.4 and Lycia support Informix 11.7

Hydra V4.4 and Lycia V5.0 both support the latest RDBMS release Informix 11.7
Informix 11.7 has now been tested and approved with a very promising bench mark results. The Querix devlopment team adopted and tested both development systems to ensure the highest compatibility, reliability, and performance with this next generation product of IBM. Users are encouraged to download Hydra V4.4 or Lycia to work with this RDBMS.

Hydra V4.4 and Lycia support Windows Server 2008

Hydra V4.4 and Lycia V5.0 both support Windows Server 2008 with 32-bit and 64-bit editions.

Hydra4GL 4.3 Available for Beta Testing

'Hydra4GL' 4.3 is now available for beta testing. For the first beta tester phase (until 31.01.2007) we offer 'Hydra4GL' tools for Windows, Linux and HP-Unix. The remaining 10 platforms will be made available on the 1st February 2007. If you would like to be considered as a beta tester, please apply by emailing info@querix.com

Independent 4GL Survey by Jean George Perrin (IIUG Board Member)

In 2006 Jean George Perrin executed an in-depth research study on the capabilities of the current 4GL Tools and their future. This research document, entitled "Development Tools in 2006: any Room for a 4GL-style Language?", is now available for download.

'Hydra4GL' 4.4 BETA 2 available for download

The second edition of 'Hydra4GL' Version 4.4 Beta with full support for 4GL Web Service Client and Server functionality is now available for download

What's New in 'Hydra4GL' 4.2

With 'Hydra4GL' Version 4.2 you get a large range of new features and functionality...

Development Update April 2006 - Dynamic Toolbar & Context Menu

Dynamic Toolbars & Mouse Context Menus driven by Key-events & -definitions

Development Update November 2006 - User Data Types

Hydra4GL allows you to define your own data types. Variables can then be defined based on these data types. This means that a desired data structure that does not already exist as a preset data type can be created and reused, saving the developer defining it repeatedly throughout the program.

Development Update July 2006 - Modern Grid Control

Modern Grid Control to replace Display & Screen Arrays

Querix Support without waiting via IRC

Querix now offers online real-time support on https://www.querix.com/querix-irc

Success Story: BDS Based Application Modernisation BAB

BAB Data-Systems GmbH are willing to share their experience on working with Querix and modernizing their 4GL application using the 'Hydra4GL' and the Querix graphical client Phoenix with other 4GL users with this white paper.

Querix Product Support - 2008

RE: Product support for previous Querix Product Versions

Global Querix Price List 2008

The Querix price list for 2008 is identical to 2007. The currency is world wide in Euros

Informix News: Informix Database Winback Offer

As an incentive to encourage qualified customers to move from non-IBM database servers to Informix Dynamic Server, IBM is offering special pricing on new licenses of IBM database servers to replace competitive licenses.

'Hydra4GL' 4.3 BETA 2 available for download

The second edition of 'Hydra4GL' Version 4.3 is now available for download.

Querix opens U.S.A. office to support customers

Independent 4GL Sturvey by Jean George Perrin (IIUG Board Member)

Jean George Perrin executed in 2006 an in depth research study on the capailities of the current 4GL Tools and their future. This research document titled "Development Tools in 2006: any Room for a 4GL-style Language?" is now available for download.

Greetings and Happy Holidays to all!

Events

2013 IIUG Informix Conference in San Diego US - April 21st - 25th

We are proud to announce our participation at the 2013 IIUG Informix Conference, April 21-25, 2013 in San Diego, California. Join us at our new sunny California location and be a part of the largest gathering of Informix fanatics in the world.

Querix will use this opportunity to showcase our latest development tools at the venue. Lycia 2.2 with a new 'WindowBuilder based' enhanced graphical designer and a new legacy project import options for I4GL, BDL, and Genero are amongst the many exciting new or enhanced features of Lycia, which is now available to the 4GL community.

Lycia II - Practical Introduction Workshop in Kharkov, Ukraine 10-11th October

We would like to invite you to our 2-days workshop "Lycia II - Practical Introduction', to be held in Kharkov, Ukraine on the 10th & 11th October 2012. This workshop is designed for developers who are currently working with Querix 4GL, BDS, Genero, Classic 4GL or are interested in learning about application development with this highly robust, feature-rich and efficient development environment. Regardless of your current technical background, this venue should be on your calendar.

2012 IIUG Informix Conference in San Diego US - April 22nd

We are proud to announce our participation at the 2012 IIUG Informix Conference, April 22-25, 2012 in San Diego, California. Join us at our new sunny California location and be a part of the largest gathering of Informix fanatics in the world.

Querix will use this opportunity to showcase our latest development tools at the venue. Lycia 2.0 with a new set of graphical clients, enhanced graphical designer and a new legacy project import options for I4GL, BDL, and Genero are amongst the many exciting new or enhanced features of Lycia, which is now available to the 4GL community.

Lycia II 4GL & BI - Practical Introduction Workshop in Southampton, UK - 21st October

We would like to invite you to our workshop "Lycia II 4GL & BI - Practical Introduction', to be held in Southampton, UK on the 21st October 2011. This workshop is designed for developers who are currently working with Querix 4GL, Genero, Classic 4GL or are interested in learning about application development with this highly robust, feature-rich and efficient development environment. Regardless of your current technical background, this venue should be on your calendar. During this workshop you will be shown how to utilise features with 'Lycia II' and 'LyciaBI'.

Lycia II 4GL & BI - Practical Introduction Workshop in Kharkov, Ukraine 17th November

We would like to invite you to our workshop "Lycia II 4GL & BI - Practical Introduction', to be held in Kharkov, Ukraine on the 17th September 2011. This workshop is designed for developers who are currently working with Querix 4GL, BDS, Genero, Classic 4GL or are interested in learning about application development with this highly robust, feature-rich and efficient development environment. Regardless of your current technical background, this venue should be on your calendar. During this full-day workshop you will be shown how to utilise many features with the recently released 4GL development suite 'Lycia II' and 'LyciaBI'.

2011 IIUG Informix Conference

The International Informix Users Group (IIUG) will host the fourth annual Informix User Conference May 15 - 18, 2011 at the Overland Park Marriott hotel in Overland Park, KS (Kansas City).
Querix will use this opportunity to showcase their latest development tools at the venue. LyciaBI - the enterprise Business Intelligence suite, Lycia V5 for Apple Mac, WebServices 2.0, new graphical clients from the Lab and the industry standard IDE Eclipse are amongst the many exiting new or enhanced features of Lycia, which is now available to the 4GL community.

2009 IIUG Informix Conference

Querix will be exhibiting at the "IIUG Informix Conference 2008", a Four-Day User Group Technical Conference, to be held April 26th - 29th, 2008, Kansas, USA

2010 IIUG Informix Conference

Querix will be exhibiting at the "IIUG Informix Conference 2010", a Four-Day User Group Technical Conference, to be held April 26th - 29th, 2010, Kansas, USA

4GL Developer Workshop in Washington DC,USA - 19th April 2010

The next Washington Area Informix User Group meeting is an exciting opportunity to learn something new in application development. Querix and Advanced DataTools will be partnering to provide a one-day FREE GUI 4GL training course at our training center in Annandale, VA. This is limited to the first 12 people who register. Learn how to take your existing Informix 4GL code and give it a face lift with a new GUI front end. Learn how to transform your Informix 4GL programs into Web Services.