boat anchor! Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I don't know. It appears to be either a 486 or P1 vintage. Early 90's perhaps. thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave S" To: "U2 Users Discussion List" Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:35 PM Subject: Re: Alpha-Micro to D3
> What year model is that Alpha-Micro system ? > > Ron White wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Johnson" > To: > 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 > > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > -- > 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 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
