filepro wish list

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:42:57AM -0400, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> Fairlight wrote:
> > This request is just part and parcel of what I've been proposing for the
> > better part of a year now--abstraction of the storage layer. 
> 
> Ain't gonna happen in my lifetime.
> 
> There is no business case for henschen and associates to open up the 
> storage subsystems of their proprietary systems. I can see perfectly 
> clear why a spelling checker would be a benefit to their goverment 
> software packages, but allowing their databases to be "data warehoused" 
> just would just invite comparison and competition.

The screaming *bloody* hell there isn't.  

DMBSen are commodity products these days.

The stored value amongst the filePro development community is in
the *code*.  Why is that not intuitively obvious to the most
casual observer?

> Same thing for all the floor covering and whatever other types of 
> vertical markets that are primarly written in filePro. It makes no sence 
> to have the customer's data available to third party add-ons.

Horseshit.

> You don't want them useing OLAP tools, or use ("gag") excel to directly 
> query the data.

Or, say, PHP?  Yeah, I can see the impact *that's* had on filePro
sales.

Oh, wait...

Cheers,
-- jra
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