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Skriven 2006-04-13 16:06:34 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 5679 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
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Hey Janis!

Apr 13 11:45 06, Janis Kracht wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JK> Wow.. sure you're looking at the right sight?

Yes but it turned out that quite a bit of 'information' isn't visable or at
least not readily readable in a text browser.  One more reason not to bother
with those sites.  I did go in with a gui browser after posting to you and
noticed the 'correct' information.  I hate when that happens.

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

Tell them to write readable html pages.  Those also work in gui browsers.  I
don't expect they will but it would be nice for a change.

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

Saw that later.  Personally I don't have much use for something like that but
am aware of many who think they do.  :-)

Seems pretty straight forward except I hate marrying data to any databasing
scheme and usually avoid doing that whenever possible.  It usually ends up
complicating things later if whatever scheme gets abandoned later on.  Keep it
simple, raw and real has always been the best strategy and can be formatted to
suit whatever scheme later on.

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

Understood.  Times are tough and competition is fierce.

 JK> monitored.. developers are real happy with sockets since they can be 
 JK> used with credit cards, stamping, manufacturing and a ton more things 
 JK> over lans, the net, etc.

Right.  I saw a simular thing for multiprocessing over network connections. 
Sort of the same idea except with source code rather then information.  Should
work.

 JK> Could be :)  It's funny.. before we got involved with the company, I 
 JK> do remember seeing those powder blue boxes in Radio Shack..

I don't recall those but I wasn't into PC's back then so that probably explains
why.

 JK> <grin>.. We both remember never hearing a thing about computers in 
 JK> college (except we knew those mainframes were there 'somewhere' <g>)

I knew where the one I worked with was.  I had to change/read/write tapes which
drives were in the same room.  It was interesting.

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

Understood.  Yeah there isn't a high demand for vax/vms.

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

Yeah that is a real boar's nest for sure.

Life is good,
Maurice

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