Re: [U2] "thoroughbred basic"

[Stu Glancy]

Brian Leach wrote:
Stu,
The problem is you obviously haven't *embraced* the new technology !
Flat files - Sooo yesterday.
Now what you should have done is spent a few weeks designing and building an
XML schema (preferably using an overpriced and complex 'now' tool like Visio
or .Net), then exported the data from Mentor into that schema, and finally
spent more weeks remapping the schema onto UniVerse...
That would have been the modern approach. 

There you go. See how far forward technology has taken us.
Brian "cynical - who me?" Leach
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Subject: Re: [U2] "thoroughbred basic"
These recent comments show how old some of us are.  Twenty years ago I was
introduced to Prime and Armstrong Basic and Information.  This was a
migration and we did it with flat files in two 80+ hour work weeks.  I
recently did 2 migrations from Mentor to UniVerse where media compatibility
was a problem so the answer was ftp flat files.  After 29 years in this
industry, the problems and answers always seem to be about the same,
sometimes with a new technology twist.
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You're right.  I haven't *embraced* the new technology.  I learn and use 
what I need to when I need to otherwise I wouldn't get anything done.  
There is too much out there to chase it all.  I tried and gave up.   It 
was too time and  money consuming.  In the mean time,  old tricks seem 
to do a lot.  After all, underneath it is just bytes.
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