2006 Developers Conference?

[Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants)]

Believe it or not at 10/20/2005 09:36 AM, Walter Vaughan said:
>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

I tried to jump on the fpGUI bandwagon but couldn't get it to work on 
SCO Unix 5.0.6 and fptechsupport was of no help.  If I can't get it 
to work on the first computer there's no sense trying any 
others.  Unless there's better support the new offerings may not go anywhere.
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