David: Answers below.
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Wolverton > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:36 AM > To: 'Bill Haskett'; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] Triggers > > What was the driving force to move from D3 to UniData? According to our client: 1) They want the IBM name, 2) D3 costs too much, 3) Support isn't what it should be, 4) D3 is less than stable, 5) Raining Data is treading water. > How difficult was the move - was it all green screen with > source code or more difficult? It wasn't that difficult. The biggest problems were UniData is like interfacing with Microdata in 1982...it's a time warp! The UniData environment is excruciatingly tedious and the lack of MV enhancements is what I'd expect from mvBASE (an end-of-line product). These issues cause our conversion to extend from about 30 man-days to close to 150 man-days. Those who use UniData have no clue about the issues with conversion. Why anyone involved with UniData wouldn't want it to be used by others is beyond my comprehension. > How did you actually DO the move - it's not like D3 files > will copy at any high level to UniData! They actually do. Colin has had success with "ACCOUNT.RESTORE" while I copied to UniVerse then to UniData (of course this digression did take about 10 man-days). > How long did it take to make the move (physically, once you > worked out the kinks)? We have about 4 man-months into this. We estimate if UniData had taken steps to update itself and provided a few utilities to assist in conversions we would have only taken about one man-month (30 days isn't bad for an enterprise application conversion). > Thanks -- I'm sure there are others here who would be > interested in knowing more about your migration... > > David W. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Haskett > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [U2] [UD] Triggers > > I've converted a client's system from D3 to UniData and > everything mostly works fine. One of the last items I > have to deal with are triggers. [snipped] ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
