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We have extensive experience in the development of web apps and other related technologies. The ODBC route is perfectly fine if you understand it and deal with it appropriately. IIS cannot connect to a database, it is strictly a web server so there must be some other application to do the programming. Even when some deal with the 4GL, what the indexing is and how it works is often misunderstood. Too often outside technologies try to use the indexing based on their outside technology, or forget to update the statistics and it doesn't seem like its as good as it can be. When it comes to distribution of DLL's etc, that's only for Java or .Net based applications using direct AppServer calls. There are several other alternatives. There is WebSpeed which is a native 4GL based system of writing programs called directly by the web server. That can generate HTML or it can be API calls over your own methods. That's a good choice if you want to continue all 4GL solutions and still give standardized outside access. Web services adapter calls AppServer, not a web server. There is a small component that translates the web server call to the AppServer. This is good if you want universal outside access and aren't really worried about the HTML. Your app today should definitely be composed of many Procedures which means this is very easy to expose those to others in a standard way. Good if you're mostly interested in API based development.
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