Hi Mac,
Apologies if this is partially a product advert but you did ask the
question....
As far as I know, Maverick has quietly died. I may be completely wrong.
Even though we have an open source version of our own OpenQM product, I
would not recommend use of open source for a commercial development as it
has no warranty or support. You could be "dead in the water" for a
considerable time while trying to fix problems. This seems to be a difficult
approach to sell to management.
Open source is fine for those who want to develop some nifty new feature
that the product developers would never have thought of but for a fully
supported business system you really need a commercial licence. Also, as is
beginning to happen in OpenQM and probably applies to other products too,
the more advanced features may not be in the open source.
From listening to users who have gone the open source route, I think that
they often end up spending more getting the system up and running than they
would have spent for a commercial licence.
I am evaluating it as an alternative to Universe, specifically looking at
converting our BASIC code to Java. Is this possible ?
Why would you want to do this? The very nature of both multivalue Basic and
Java suggests that this will cost you heavily in performance. If there are
things that you want to do that can only be done in Java, it should be
possible to escape from Basic out into Java or the reverse.
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200
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