Malcolm, >> Have any of you taken a look at this product? Would enjoy hearing from those that have hands-on experience.<<
I can only give you my perspective of a demo by Ken Levy and the Servoy CEO. 1) It is an application server product. As soon as you make a change to the source code the running app picks up the changes and presents them to the user. No bringing down the EXE or having the user get out of the form and restarting (if you deployed SCXs directly). This is impressive if you have one of those 24x7 apps. 2) Ken is influencing the Servoy team to bring some of the cool VFP features to their language and IDE. As for their push into the Fox Community, they see Microsoft dropping an opportunity for them to pick up. Same for the folks at Advantage Database Server. If Microsoft wants to shed customers, they are willing to help them out. 3) Nothing is ported from VFP, you are rewriting your apps, just like moving to a .NET language or Python, etc. 4) I am not sure about their licensing as was posted here. Sounds like something new is in the wind. Last I heard they licensed it based on your app and the projected revenues, which plain does not work for me. You might want to check with them to see if Michael was giving pricing specific to his situation, or if they have gone a smarter route. Still, prices are way steeper than most VFP developers are willing to spend based on my observations. You might want to reach out to wOOdy from Germany who has made a serious push to Servoy. wOOdy was part of a late night session at German DevCon. Boudewijn Lutgerink from the Netherlands has jumped on it as well since the eTechlogia guys fell of the face of the Earth. Both have actual hands on experience they can share. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net www.rickschummer.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/00d601cb96fc$0a225be0$1e6713...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
