Lukas Beeler’s IT Blog

If you’ve been using 5722-QU1 in the past (aka Query), you might have wanted to work with something more modern. There are a few solutions for this, however many of them have most of the business logic and configuration on the client, which is especially cumbersome in small business environments.

One of the other applications that does this right is SEQUEL from Help/Systems. However, this application is only available in English, which doesn’t work when you’re looking for an end user ready solution.

However, IBM has recently a web based product which works purely server based, is compatible to Query, and is available in several local languages. This product is 5733-QU2 aka “Web Query”. This product gets released this Friday (the 14th).

I’m very interested on how it’s performance will turn out. We have several customers which are still using legacy machines (170, 250, 270, 800), and are not willing to stay current (this is a topic on it’s own). WAS Express was an extreme performance hog on our test 270, and performed horrible. But 5733-QU2 will use Tomcat, a more lightweight application server. I really hope that this will give better performance even on older machines.