At 07:39 PM 10/26/2006 -0400, Steve Ellenoff wrote:
Kevin and I spoke about this topic in person.
The answer is: His interest is in how he could take his product "REAL
Basic" and make it more attractive to the growing # of VFP users who are
unhappy with our current situation, and are looking for a cross platform
alternative in a product that is still actively supported and growing.
Speaking for just myself of course....
1) have a built-in data engine like VFP does. E.g. cursors, etc.
2) provide functions like SEEK(). SQL is nice, but it's cumbersome for some
situations. We don't want ADO bullcrap (or whatever MS calls it now)
3) provide a DB option - again, built in. A file-based one like VFP is
fine. If a C/S and file-based could be made, then great. But the ability to
store data locally - between sessions - during session - etc. has been an
incredible benefit of VFP.
4) Probably goes without saying, and he probably already has it, but need
to be able to connect to other DBs. ODBC is fine. The hell with MS and
their constantly changing 'data access' standards. (I still can't believe
the whole industry didn't turn on MS when they 'stopped' supported ODBC.
Jerks).
5) Cross-platform - I think you said it's already that way, so good to go
there.
6) Need a good IDE (yeah, it's mainly eye-candy, but taking away the tedium
is a good way to attrack developers - hopefully he already has).
7) Have some way for easy, or at least non-complicated, way to make
applications web-enabled, or even run-in-browser. Personally, I think the
run-in-browser will eventually take a backseat to 'smart' desktop
applications that communicate over the web in the background. The never
ending security holes, poor performance, and lack of truly rich user
interface options make browser-apps really suck (again IMO).
Well that's off the top of my head. There's more. But the above is what
strikes me as the main things.
-Charlie
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