Hi Muller, This s a good idea.
There are enough posts in the last few days for anyone serious about supporting DP to do so. If you have Windows 7 Pro, the download for XP mode takes a few minutes, just as downloading VMware does and maybe a couple of hours worst case scenario to set up a DOS environment. But is also begs the question... is there a replacement for DP? We need a way forward for the future. I starting creating databases in DP in 1988. I have many applications that still run on DP. But the core ones I have replaced. At one stage I paid a programmer a small fortune to build a DP look alike which was written in Delphi. It worked but the code to maintain look up screens was complex. But I was also dependent on the programmer to create new screens. I still use DP occasionally for creating on the fly data capture, but equally it has serious limitations. The biggest draw card for DP is its simplicity. You can get a database up and running in minutes. During the earthquakes in Christchurch we sustained damage and had several claims in with Insurance and the Earthquake commission. One of the biggest frustrations was for months you couldn't get information on claims because they didn't have a good central database, let alone a good relational database, with indexes that prevent duplicate records. DP could have solved that problem in minutes, while a solution was being worked on. But equally DP would have been unsuitable for the interconnectivity and images and connections to Ipads etc. I went through massive withdrawal symptoms when port our application to Delphi. We could have gone to C# or dot net but Delphi was the most stable. When it came to adding an outlook type diary/calendar screen for picking, placing, shifting and editing appointments from our jobs and sales list, it took my programmer less time to code, test and rollout the At one stage I spent some time communicating with Lew regarding writing a connector to the database files, in the same way that SQL or ODBC connectors are written for non SQL and non ODBC programs. So in addition to where and what DP can be used, maybe also a list of how people have migrated DP to something else and moved forward. Regards Eric Donn Director J.I.T. Systems Ltd 021 548 411 [email protected] ph: 64 3 351 4100 fax: 64 3 351 4148 www.jit.co.nz Delivery Address: 24 Albany St Christchurch 8014 Postal Address: P.O. Box 29063 Christchurch 8540 The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the use of the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is CONFIDENTIAL and may be exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If you read this message and are not the addressee you are notified that use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately and delete the original message. You should scan this message and any attached files for viruses. J.I.T. Systems Limited accepts no liability for any loss caused either directly or indirectly by a virus arising from the use of this message or any attached file -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Muller Fabio Sent: 18 November 2011 07:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DataPerfect on Windows 7 64 bit Gentlemen , once in a while we'll get this discussion. I would like to suggest that we could build some doc explaining how to run DP under virtual environements that were tested and work fine with configurations files examples if possible, etc.... I.E: we know that Dosbox megabuild works fine with DP so we could include links to install files and manuals and one config file proved to work. VMware works also but printing (with USB prts) without third part programs,is out of question now (may be they fix it in next versions).We could also choose a "most apropriate" windows version to run DP in a VM , for example, one that makes file sharing between guest and host OS's an easy thing and can run DP easy also. As time passes by , 64-bits may be a kind of default (or another thing new may appears like ARM processors) and XP emu probably will also disapear as NTVDM did . So we must have some alternatives to that in order to have DP alive and kicking for more hundreds yrs (yes, the way things go we'll not see anything so easy during this time) . Also (my opinion ok ?) the wonderful of worlds here would be port it to Linux, but this is a dream and I know, not easy to achieve , but not impossible.... _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf ______________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scrubbed for your protection by SMX. For more information visit http://smxemail.com ______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
