Contractor wanted: web development for fP back-end

[Barry Wiseman]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Scott Walker wrote:

> Barry,
> 
> Since I am presently considering it, what are your issues with
> fileProGI.   I would appreciate your thoughts.
> 
> Scott Walker
> RAM Systems Corp
> Ph: (704) 896-6549
> Fx: (704) 896-7458
> scottw1 at alltel.net
 

Scott, my impressions are based on fptech's roadshow demo several years
ago when they were first rolling out the product.

What I saw was a tool for a) mouse-enabling existing character apps and b)
running said character apps from a web browser client instead of a
terminal emulator.  If that's all you need, I suppose GI does it
well.  A key selling point seemed to be that GI code and features
were all backward compatible to character-based filePro, so one could mix 
and match web and terminal stations for the same program.  Control over
graphical cosmetics varied from limited to none. I found the included
Gee-Whiz features (popdown calculator applet for numeric fields, popdown
calendar applet for date fields) largely irrelevant to my purposes.

About one year ago I bought a copy for evaluation, but I was unable to
make it work; since I also got no response from fptech support within
my window of time for evaluation, I instead deleted the software from
my machine and had them credit my purchase.  Hence I have no idea what may
have been added or improved in recent years.


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