Ask PCWEEK LABS
"Another competitor in this space is SoftVelocity's Clarion 5 Web Edition. For developers keying on databases, Clarion is the product of choice because it can automatically generate a whole application from a database design."
PC Week Labs
" Clarion is one of the few tools we've tested that rivals Delphi for both productivity and performance, however, and the Clarion Web Edition offers distributed-architecture facilities across Internet connections and enables deployment via Java-enabled browsers."
PCWeek
Ask INFOWORLD
" The Clarion environment provides a well-integrated application generator with all the structured templates and wizards necessary for generating code and maintaining data definitions. Clarion quickly develops full-functioning applications capable of interacting with connected data sources."
INFOWORLD
Ask InformationWeek
"Clarion's automatic code-generation features are terrific, because even non-programmers can create complex applications without learning to program...Clarion could be a tool around which you could innovate your IT process completely."
Information Week
"(While) Visual FoxPro 6.0 is certainly a possibility for new users who want an interesting programming environment that makes it easier to create new applications quickly, although other tools, including TopSpeed's Clarion 4 - reviewed last week (Sept. 7) - provide a better overall development environment."
Information Week
Ask Visual Developer
"Clarion's language has all the richness and expression of Visual Basic or dBase...In sum, Clarion has been designed for power and convenience in coding and it shows."
Visual Developer |
Ask WinPlanet
"Pound For Pound The Best In Its Class! This one is a real jewel!"
Douglas Smith
WinPlanet
Ask ENT Magazine
Read the Review
"One company that has had success with a Clarion 4GL deployment is Grand Rapids, Mich.-based RidgeView Stamping Co. This $60 million contractor to General Motors has built an entire MRP system from the ground up using Clarion"
Joseph McKendrick
Ask Network World Today
" This rapid application development environment lets you deploy and maintain data-centric applications for Windows and the Web in a way that is easy for programming novices and extensible for veterans. Easy-to-use wizards provide quick integration of code frameworks that can be fully customized".
Network World Today
Ask PC Magazine
"(With Visual Basic 6.0) the process is to construct Web pages using Microsoft Visual InterDev or some other tool then use VB to connect VB event code or ActiveX controls to those web pages. In other words, it can't all happen in VB alone. This is in sharp contrast to a development tool like TopSpeed's Clarion, in which a complete application can be converted into interactive Web pages with one click of the mouse."
PC Magazine
"When wizards aren’t enough... (Clarion for Windows’) Application Generator made it easy to perform our tasks. It guided us through the process of creating the basic database and automatically created standard forms and reports that were easily customized to match our tests."
PC Magazine
Ask InfoWorld
Read the June Review
"Clarion 4 Internet Edition makes short work of building three-tier data-driven applications... I was able to build detailed, customized data screens tailored to my company's requirements... in a fraction of the time it took with Inprise's (formerly Borland's) Delphi."
InfoWorld |
