OnGroup.com has a product for this sort of thing. While I have not worked with OnWare, the concept reminds me of a thing in the real estate world called a "Bridge Loan".
It is like I have a house to sell, I buy another house before I sell the first house, pay two mortgages and then get a third mortgage to help pay for the first two mortgages. Of course, I can barely afford the first mortgage. --Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JPB-U2UG Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:14 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] converting from UniVerse on Redhat Linux to UniVerse on Windows Actually 99% of our business data and logic is contained on the Universe database but 90% of the fluff that connects to it is in windows. This has created a problem in that the majority of personnel dedicated to the fluff far exceeds the number of personnel dedicated to UV, and there's power in numbers. The problem Brenda is talking about started just before I started with the company and caused us to loose the manager and a couple of other UV programmers. Unfortunately I came in during the middle of it with a signed contract that said I wouldn't leave for at least a year. I had to learn their applications very rapidly and finally found that everything that went wrong was due to screwed up cross reference files that had multiple entries making the reports all come out with double or triple entries. The data was not wrong it was just reporting wrong. I created programs to rebuild the cross reference files, tested the reports for accuracy, and was happy to tell the new manager that the problem was fixed when he walked in the door. I celebrated my 10th year with the company in May. You tell me, how difficult would it be to convert close to 40 GB of data in thousands of files all of which have multi-valued and some sub-multi-valued data, to SQL Server tables. Plus over 4000 programs to access, manipulate, display, or print the data. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Brenda Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:45 AM To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Subject: RE: [U2] converting from UniVerse on Redhat Linux to UniVerse on Windows >>>If, on the other hand, your U2 system and processes make up much more > than 1% of your > business IT, which can easily be imagined because SQL and OO > infrastructure is > bloated beyond belief, then realize you can pretty much do anything with > MV. It is a > far, far, far better platform for transaction processing than anything > else you can > imagine.<< > > We are a billing and collections company, UniVerse runs that. We also > sell a VisualFoxPro software that clients can use to run their Martial > Arts, Tanning Salons, Health Clubs on, checking customers in and for > those who want to handle the billing themselves, do the billing. For > those who want us to do the billing, that data is uploaded into our > UniVerse system. We have clients that do not have the VFP software that > we do billing and collections for, and clients that use our Windows > terminal services so that the data is in one repository at our site > running the VFP software, that data is also uploaded into the UniVerse > system for billings and collections. Everything except our old dialer > and UniVerse is on a Windows platform. That said, UniVerse is the core > of the business. You break that and you break the business. In fact > about 10-11 years ago, they did do something that screwed up the reports > where nothing matched for several months and almost folded because of > that. I don't know the exact details since I've only been here about 7 > years. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
