Text 5679, 109 rader
Skriven 2006-04-13 11:45:38 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 5673 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
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Hi Maurice,

>> Nah, this is an old unixey program I believe.. after talking to some
>> more folks ... It was used by a number of developers that didn't like
>> filePro Plus's menuing system (the nerve of them <bg>).

> Heh, heh.  Yeah that happens quite a bit in LinuxLand - strange but true.

:) :)

>> No, filePro is available for just about all platforms...

>I only saw OS X support on their main site which made me wonder about where he
> got the SCO version.  SCO had absolutely nothing about it ... or filePro for
> that matter.  The FilePro site only mentioned Windows.

Wow.. sure you're looking at the right sight?  It's on the main page, in the
right hand corner IIRC.. in red <bg>...Windows, SCO, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris,
AIX, eserver,Iseries Linux, FreeBSD ... It's smallish type, maybe I'll tell
them to make it bigger <g>.

From their faq: filePro has an installed base of over 200,000 end-users in a
text based environment, with 60% of its customers using UNIX or Linux. This
product has been proven as a high volume, text based, lightning quick database
and application generator. It is available for Unix, Windows 95/98/2000/NT,
Linux, and Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, and IBM eServer iSeries.

>> Right now
>> I'd say linux versions are pretty hot sales-wise.. A lot of people do
>> order the Windows version though.  A number of SCO systems change
>> over to linux as well.. makes sense to me :) :)  But I'm a little
>> prejudiced in that direction <bg>.

> I saw nothing about it and I looked.  They sure aren't bragging about Linux
> versions that is for sure.

People know it's there (customer base), it would probably help if they were a
big company and had lots of $$$ to advertise <bg> But it's a small company..

>> It's a rapid development system/rdms - well not a true rdms.. It's
>> been in use for years and years mostly in the Unix world way way
>> back, then added DOS, then Windows, then Linux, etc. etc..  there's
>> not many OS's it's not available for..

>Okay.  I never heard of it before this.  Seems to me to be sort of mysql-ish o
> DB1V-ish from what I could tell.

Hmm.. yes, in a sense :)  more from the faq:

"[...] a powerful data base engine and rapid application development interface.
[...] attractive is the data and code transportability from platform to
platform and operating system to operating system."

I think that's probably one of the things that make people stick with it over
the course of what, some 25 years? :)  It's the transportability.. and of
course the new features they keep adding <g>.. like they've just built in
sockets so that tcpip ports can be monitored.. developers are real happy with
sockets since they can be used with credit cards, stamping, manufacturing and a
ton more things over lans, the net, etc.

>> It actually started out being sold by Tandy about a million years
>> ago... then later the company was named Small Computer Company (as in
>> 'not mainframe') after that.. and now it's sold by an employee owned
>> company named fP Tech.

>Ah!  I was doing vax/vms more or less around that time.  That might explain wh
> I know or heard nothing about it.

Could be :)  It's funny.. before we got involved with the company, I do
remember seeing those powder blue boxes in Radio Shack.. that was the first
issue of filePro, then named Profile if IIRC <grin>... We used to hang out
there when we got a chance to check out what was new in computers because it
was either just before, or just after those swell dual floppy systems came out
<lol>  before hard drive days <grin>  We almost bought one of those ancient
tandy systems then.. then held out to see what was happening next <grin>.. We
both remember never hearing a thing about computers in college (except we knew
those mainframes were there 'somewhere' <g>)

>> It's been used by the NYC Transit authority to run NYC's traffic
>> lights <g>.. the supreme courts across the country, I found out our
>> Fire dept here in Binghamton uses it too.. it's been around :)

> Cool.  Maybe I have seen it and wasn't aware of what I was looking at.

Could be :)  It was sold for vax and vms long long ago.. I don't think it is
now though - well the code is still there but I don't think we have any
custumers using it.

> No problem.  It was sort of fun looking around.  While I was at it I stumbled
> across some math libs for gfortan 4.1.0 that piqued my curiousity.  Even some
> 3D glut stuff that surprised me when I saw that.  I learned something useful,
> despite it having nothing to do with filePro.

Heh.. that's good..

>Funny what searching for one
> thing leads to something totally different.  That can and does happen.  Also
> was reading about some matlab and maple linux stuff.  Too much happening in
> this linux world to keep up on.

Yes, that's the truth.. I barely have time anymore to keep up.. at least my
gentoo system is good and stable and keeps on keeping on <grin>.. I'm still
real happy with the distribution and the lack of problems with dependencies..

Take care,
Janis

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