Perhaps I've been buffered by the wrath of RD as i don't work with them directly. I work with a company called Zumasys and they've been incredibly helpful with the migrations and new systems that I've installed.
I did go to bat with RD directly discussing a licensing issue and was able to convince them of my perspective. It was regarding the 50% discount on D3 for currently supported native systems. There was a loophole that i identified and they accomodated me. They do play hardball on virtually everything else. I have existing UV and UD clients, all of which had their environments converted prior to my involvement. Thus, I've never experienced the birthing pains of converting from native to U2. Observing all the conversations on this forum regarding the release levels, implementations, connectivity etc, and that I am an outside consultant and not an employee, a delivered virgin D3 system on W2K is about as clean an environment one could expect to start from. Pop in the last file-save, do the restore and compile. In fact, converting from AP-pro doesn't even need the compiling. I observe all the unix and NT commands being offered and they're out of my league. Plus, my clients, being native to begin with, aren't aching for the ODBC, triggers, sockets, IIS and other magic features of today. They just want to continue with their green screen apps. Thanks. Someone earlier posted a comparison between Pick and Microsoft. It stated that MS is happy with 10% paying licenses out of 100,000,000 while Pick wanted 100% paying licenses out of 10,000. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U2 Users Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:22 AM Subject: Re: Alpha-Micro to D3 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:39 PM > Subject: Alpha-Micro to D3 > > > Dear All: > > One of my clients has a 40 user Alpha Micro native system that's in need of > a migration. I want to migrate to D3/W2K. I've done a few and am comfortable > supporting it remotely as a consultant instead of as an employee. While I > welcome the possibility of going to 'nix U2 or NT U2, I want to focus on > D3/W2K. > > Has anyone had any experience converting from Alpha Micro to D3 or UD/UV and > are there any pitfalls regarding incompatible source code. I can expect some > slight differences in syntax but I'm looking to see if there's a major > roadblock. I don't suspect anything beyond PQ proc but IIRC an earlier > conversion from GA to AP-Pro brought with it some missing commands like SWAP > and MAX. > > Thanks in advance. > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > --- > > D3 does have the SWAP statement, but like several other statements you > need to but a $OPTIONS EXT compiler directive in your program or it > will not compile. My documentation does not mention a MAX statement. > > I wish you luck dealing with Raining Data. At my earliest convenience I > will kick D3 and Raining Data out the back door and run everything on > UniVerse. RD has raised their maintenance to 90 USD per seat and have > instituted a 50% charge to get a major release (release 8.0 is due out this > year). > They have mostly stopped enhancing the product and to get anything fixed or > added to the product you must submit a "business requirements statement" to > them convincing them that it is in their business interest to provide the > fix or > function. That doesn't sound like a company that is very interested in > keeping > D3 around for the long haul. > > YMMV > Ron White > > > > > --- > [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] > > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
