RE: Document scan and retrieval (looking for software)

2004-02-03 Thread Ross Ferris
your indexing inside UV, and store the actual image in web space can also drop a file element to allow arbitrary capture/loading of any file. Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: Document scan and retrieval (looking for software)

2004-02-03 Thread Ross Ferris
) TRY COMPASSCS.COM. I USE THEM AND THEY HAVE A GREAT PRODUCT. INTEGRATED IN UNIVERSE ALSO From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Ferris Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 6:28 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: Document scan and retrieval (looking

RE: [UV] How much do you pay for support each year?

2004-02-23 Thread Ross Ferris
interest in keeping you online Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jimmay h Sent: Friday, 20 February 2004 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UV] How much do you

RE: Redback vs Raining Data's .Net Data Provider

2004-02-26 Thread Ross Ferris
Search the archives here I remember seeing a comment in the last 3-4 months that it was slw - Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Randall Sent: Friday

[AD] Viságe.BIT Whitepaper (draft) and test drive now available

2004-02-26 Thread Ross Ferris
cube at http://www.stamina.com.au/Products/Visage/Visage_BIT.htm If you are going to Spectrum next month, drop by the American Computer Technics table talk to the guys about you DW/BI, GUI, Reporting and Web Development needs Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software

RE: Eclipse

2004-03-07 Thread Ross Ferris
nicely to mv Data. But somehow I don't think that any money spent on a code generation module out the back end of Rose is going to see a return Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Eclipse

2004-03-08 Thread Ross Ferris
the entire system, with little or no obvious/immediate payback Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Monday, 8 March 2004 8:33 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion

RE: Can ya run UV 10.x 3 user system on Win XP Pro box?

2004-03-09 Thread Ross Ferris
I know the free 2 user eval runs under XP-PRO, so I don't believe you would have any problems Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Walter Sent: Wednesday, 10 March

RE: Terminology

2004-03-15 Thread Ross Ferris
I'm on the wrong side of the world, but IIRC DataFlo is a product, like InfoFlo - these days out of the Epicore stable I'd imagine SLA would be a Service Level Agreement and OLA would be an Operational Level Agreement, both relating (more or less) to the uptime availability of a system Ross

RE: D3 Automatic Faxing

2004-03-16 Thread Ross Ferris
add MailLynx to the mix and they can be emailed as well if you need .PDF for publishing to web, just add Acrobat to the mix You can download evals, manuals etc from http://www.stamina.com.au/Products/LynxProducts/Products_Downloads.htm Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution

RE: U2 file articles in International Spectrum

2004-03-21 Thread Ross Ferris
I wonder when Gus is going to update the website, so those of us outside USA can have a read !?! Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Results Sent: Sunday, 21 March

RE: U2 file articles in International Spectrum

2004-03-21 Thread Ross Ferris
Ahhh, what do I want to know and the answer given by all good users is if I knew what I didn't know then I wouldn't have to ask, but I don't know WHAT I don't know, so I don't know ! (or sumfin like dat) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development

RE: Volunteer Board

2004-03-31 Thread Ross Ferris
That said, I think that it would be nice to have some representation from each 'major' country where U2 is used ... UK is covered, USA (obvious) ./... haven't looked for Aus, SA, NZ, NL (and sorry for 'others' I just snubbed) should 'add' to the international flavour Ross Ferris Stamina

RE: XML or WORD Format???

2004-04-01 Thread Ross Ferris
- and there are no backend program changes. If you add Adobe Distiller to the WordLynx Server, then you can also produce .PDFs Good luck Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Are there any major U2 distributors in UK or USA ?

2004-04-05 Thread Ross Ferris
to be 'big' at one time as a U2 distributor, yet there doesn't appear to be much recent stuff on their website (post 2002). Is this a void in the market ? was it filled by someone else (IBM Direct?) Is there a similar tale from the UK ? Europe ? South Africa ? Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage

RE: Modern Universe (TESTING)

2004-04-05 Thread Ross Ferris
Whilst not a 'built in' facility, you can code a solution around this to get (more or less) instant results using a dual/degenerate inversion scheme - of course that would also have required you to know in advance that you wanted to perform such a wildcard search on the field in question. Ross

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Visage Roadshow in NZ

2004-04-12 Thread Ross Ferris
Intelligence/Data Warehouse applications. If you are a U2 (or other mv DB) user or VAR and haven't been invited, please contact the guys @ mvSolutions for details - the more the merrier ! Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Visage Roadshow in NZ

2004-04-13 Thread Ross Ferris
for a Sea Change - OR the challenge of working with innovative, leading edge technologies. Feel free to send an unsolicited CV any time :-) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: The future of U2

2004-04-14 Thread Ross Ferris
. If not, then we have Plan V :-) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mayo Sent: Thursday, 15 April 2004 4:01 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: The future

RE: Productivity metrics

2004-04-14 Thread Ross Ferris
The other interesting thing I noted @ the HELLO WORLD site was that we had FULL source code for things like delphi - even though 99.9% was produced automatically from the IDE ! Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Productivity metrics

2004-04-15 Thread Ross Ferris
fashioned, hand crafted PickBasic ? (I don't really want/need an answer to this, as I think the results could be skewed to show anything, and the time taken to gain the result/insight could be longer than the time taken to get the job done ?!?) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution

RE: UniVerse vs Progress Performance

2004-04-15 Thread Ross Ferris
Probably need to see Progress running on the IBM under AIX - or UV on Intel chip with same OS to make significant comparison; even neglecting just WHAT is going on under the hood could have been 400+ users doing 'nothing' Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software

[ot] RE: Database decoupling (Was: Future of U2)

2004-04-17 Thread Ross Ferris
that has to be written for a complex system is minimal - and system systems can be codeless now ! Drop by www.stamina.com.au and follow the Visage links if you are interested, or drop us a line and we can send you out a test drive CD if you like. Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution

RE: UV to Text Conversion Standard?

2004-04-17 Thread Ross Ferris
of the major arguments for using mv in the first place, doesn't it ? You are already compromising your design (perhaps) because of your choice of tool. Perhaps we should all capitulate start to use flat CSV files ? Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original

RE: PI Open is going away

2004-04-17 Thread Ross Ferris
Don't forget to mention the Drumheller(? Drumhella?) Trick ! Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Results Sent: Saturday, 17 April 2004 4:45 AM To: U2 Users Discussion

RE: Crystal Reports

2004-04-17 Thread Ross Ferris
format, and give CR a good run for it's money ! Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Randall Sent: Saturday, 17 April 2004 5:41 AM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List

RE: PI Open is going away

2004-04-17 Thread Ross Ferris
Probably. Never knew the guy ... but I thought the trick was kinda neat, and I've still been known to use variants to this day :-) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: Database decoupling (Was: Future of U2)

2004-04-18 Thread Ross Ferris
into the future :-) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 18 April 2004 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Database decoupling

RE: GUI from Mv code Re: Crystal Reports

2004-04-18 Thread Ross Ferris
interface. It's also supposedly (sorry, Ross, I've got no experience in Visage) a much less involved NEW development environment [Ross Ferris] Coming FROM an mv environment, with an existing DB design and application code, I think you are right in saying that Viságe is less involved, and simpler

RE: GUI from Mv code Re: Crystal Reports

2004-04-18 Thread Ross Ferris
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 18 April 2004 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GUI from Mv code Re: Crystal Reports Then some of the validation (two field interactions) should be relegated to

RE: PI Open is going away

2004-04-18 Thread Ross Ferris
construct ? THEN you would have to re-read the file do the processing with something like OK = 1 LOOP READNEXT ID ELSE OK = 0 WHILE OK do work REPEAT The result, on a non-trivial file, more than compensated for the high order byte inversion under Information :-) Ross Ferris Stamina Software

RE: GUI from Mv code Re: Crystal Reports

2004-04-18 Thread Ross Ferris
advantages you get with Viságe is all of the mistakes we have made along the way. You are left with a distillate that is very pure, efficient, and potent :-) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: GUI as nice as character-based

2004-04-19 Thread Ross Ferris
the J word, which I believe is an implicit (and understood) requirement for DLG !?! Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn M. Wolthuis Sent: Tuesday, 20 April 2004 5

What client platform do YOU use (Parallel to GUI thread)

2004-04-19 Thread Ross Ferris
Wintel desktops, please step up be counted - and if there is a vast ocean of hidden MAC and Linux desktops out there, please identify yourself Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development 1) Be able to use any Windows, new Mac (unix) or Linux client

RE: GUI as nice as character-based

2004-04-19 Thread Ross Ferris
product (Clif won't let me mention Viságe unless I put an [AD] in the subject) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Bennett Sent: Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:32 AM

RE: GUI as nice as character-based

2004-04-19 Thread Ross Ferris
H, That could exclude Java, as I don't think the JVM ships these days with XP, does it ? Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20

RE: GUI as nice as character-based

2004-04-20 Thread Ross Ferris
Any objection to me chasing that small 95% portion of the market in the meantime ? I figure I've been in the winning 5% end of the niche for too long :-) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: GUI as nice as character-based

2004-04-20 Thread Ross Ferris
) obstacles that would need to be overcome - but the scripting IS powerful ! Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Tuesday, 20 April 2004 9:22 PM To: 'U2 Users

RE: What client platform do YOU use (Parallel to GUI thread)

2004-04-20 Thread Ross Ferris
. Perhaps it is just that we couldn't master this :-), but back when insert V word was a FAT TE, OUR GUI results were so obviously NOT windows that the product never made it out the door ! You said you had 30% Macs - can you tell me how many devices this is, and are other 70% Wintel ? Ross Ferris

RE: What client platform do YOU use (Parallel to GUI thread)

2004-04-20 Thread Ross Ferris
It's not a performance issue, so much as the UI itself. I dont believe that you can automatically 'translate' from 24 x 80 to GUI and end up with a reasonable result of necessity it may look 'screen scraped', UNLESS the GUI UI is tweaked Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution

RE: GUI as nice as character-based

2004-04-20 Thread Ross Ferris
Contrast this to Citrix (where the only thing transmitted to the client is screen update images, as the code actually executes on the Citrix box) or Browser (a relatively small page is sent) Also see maybe http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/t/thin_client.html Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage

RE: How far can U2 scale?

2004-04-23 Thread Ross Ferris
the historic position that mv allows you to do more with less, I don't think we should be too surprised by this. Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Wurlod Sent

RE: [UV] Problem reactivating select list

2004-04-26 Thread Ross Ferris
Why not write a little paragraph that does the select, then ED, which you execute ? Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hester Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2004 9:12

RE: D3 - Universe

2004-04-27 Thread Ross Ferris
You MIGHT be able to use ODBC from UV, but ODBC with D3 has never been great - depending on volumes, there is always OSFI (on D3) being mapped to a UV type 19 file ? Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED