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Subject: RE: [Dataperf] towards a modern DP - Random thoughts
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Date: Thu, August 27, 2015 3:09 pm
To: "Don Friedman" <
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Some time ago, people made a Java product that could read DP. This was a huge step toward porting DP into a modern environment.
There still is a need for much of what DP offers, especially in the realm of phones. Phone apps need lightweight implimentation, easy graphics.
Were I to comment on DP architecture I would posit the following:
1. Printing could be broken out into a separate application.
2. One of the big weaknessess of DP is what I would call conditional presentation. Much of this was solved inelegantly via DPMate. But one needs to control what fields appear on table, as well as access.
3. Periodically I keep threatening to post up the DP developers guide. I was one of 5 people that purchased this from WordPerfect, as I recall for $2000. Last I checked I still have it -but getting motivated to dig through thousands of boxes is.. daunting.
DataPerfect needs better html integration - something a la cold fusion of long ago fame.
It needs easy integration into one of the two standard webserves, either apache or MicroSoft.
It needs a way to better separate what appears on screen and what is merely in the table.
Fun times, tho to be sure
Chris
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Subject: Re: [Dataperf] towards a modern DP
From: Don Friedman <
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Date: Wed, August 26, 2015 12:05 pm
To: Bruce Conrad <
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Cc: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group <
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Bruce - excellent stuff. I remain truly surprised that the need for simple database application generators never really took hold. It seemed to me that Q&A had a smart idea, a word processor with a database that could easily create data-driven reports and correspondence. There were a handful of other of these products out there and I suspect that at one time Lew thought DP would be a part of DataPerfect per se. It's not that DP failed on it's own to capture a market, the entire product category failed to capture a market. Do you think a web-based application development tool could do much better?
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