2006 Developers Conference?

[Walter Vaughan]

I'm looking at my schedule for next year.

Does anyone have any idea if there will be another filePro Developers 
Conference? I am guessing that an idea time would be a month or so after the 
release of 6.0 to go over the new features and how to implement them.

If fpTech does not have the staff to do this anymore, what about a community 
lead conference? Why not have the people who are on the advisory council act as 
the group to get this planned and done?

<rant>
If I didn't know better (which I do, knowing that 5.0 was supposed to be out for 
years before release) I'd say that we might not see the 6.0 release for another 
year, so maybe I should be asking about 2007 schedules :] .

Actually I don't need anything in the 6.0 product as I understand it so far. I 
*need* an uncoupling between the "Rapid Application Development" layer and the 
"Data Storage Layer" for *nix servers. That's not in the works as I understand, 
so I won't be purchasing a 6.0 license unless things like that are a part of the 
deal. I know if I were an employee-owner of fpTech, I would not want any part of 
GPL code attached to filePro, but what about something that is BSD licensed like 
  HSQLDB as a target for the storage level?

One thing we have not had as a luxury as filePro developers is 
"Cheaper/Better/Faster". New version types were more expensive, and thus were 
not deployed at expectant levels. Heck, everyone should be using fpGUI instead 
of PuTTy or Anzio Windows clients. That is the great shame in all this. However 
with the clarity of a monday morning quarterback, it should have been priced so 
that a person would be insane not to deploy fpGUI.

I dunno, I have read that we the users of this mailing list are like those who 
still believe that Amiga will rise from the ashes and save the computer world. 
Perhaps they are right.
</rant>

--
Walter