On Monday 19 June 2006 22:59, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jun 19, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Glenn Davy wrote: > > immediate almost drop in replacement for developer built access aps > > which is > > my minimal requirement anyhow - looking forward to seeing what I > > can do - > > If you run into anything that is confusing or not particularly well- > explained in the docs, please let us know. That's how the docs get > improved, so that the next guy who starts with Dabo doesn't run into > the same problems. will do - 1 thing you have over gnue - is,in line with the 'e' for enterprise, its very scary and overwhelming, both the culture and the product here are quite accessable - guess its the fox influence, I also miss the foxpro culture as well > > > Im like you Ive have been pinning for fox pro (in my case in since > > ms-access/sql server was imposed at a coreperate level) > > So I take it that your site is Windows-only? essentially yes - our web apps wont even run on firefox, the existing debate is about if to plan to be cross platform - the lead guy, who's idea of moving out side of asp, msacess and sql server is vb.net and asp.net, seems to think being ms is a marketing edge.
Im looking at prototyping an alternative. we love pdfs here and I love that your report designer thinks in postscript - that might be my . I also moonlight however, and need to spec a job, for which I think this might be a suitable candidate. > We're looking for > anyone who can help us work with Microsoft SQL Server data in a cross- > platform manner. Currently the only workable solutions are either big > $$ or involve lots of additional layers that just seems too > unmanageable. sure - with out promising anything, i dont know what my own limitations are here yet... What options have you looked at? have you played with the sqldmo libraries etc, or do you mean, for example, for your fat client to execute on say OS X, and talk to an sql server, even exec SQL DDL statments and create sql objects on that server (which I guess sqldmo cant do when executing from a mac). Glenn > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
