Fw: Your involvement

[Bud Henschen]

Greetings again:
Nothing beyond 5.6 is set in concrete.  The next item to be released is 
fPBiometric which should allow you to develop applications with finger print 
recognition allowing for enrollment and identification and door control 
running with filePro on the servers.  Hopefully, this will get us into the 
SCO Unix and Linux markets. We are waiting for Ken to finish 5.6 and move 
him to interface the messaging, which is mostly finished, into filePro. 
This should allow you to enter a market which is still in the early stages 
and according to various publication going to have tremendous growth within 
the next ten (10) years.

fpXML will also be released in 2006 or 2007 depending on development time. 
To get filePro to be open and communicate with other databases, etc. this 
will be very important.

We will also be looking into having a new screen design and getting beyond 
the current 80 X 24 screen.  This will be an involved project and time 
consuming.

Printers will also need to be addressed.

With the release of the above, we will be including "wish list items" and 
"memo printing" which we will be reviewing, after the release of 5.6.   I 
would like to post a listing of wish list items and see if it is necessary 
to spend the time and resources to develop or if someone in the FP community 
currently has a work-a-round that can be implemented and we can move to 
another item.   Remember, we have to look at the needs of the entire 
community and not just one or two individuals and justify the return on 
investment.  This may not meet with all your approval, but if one item 
results in a $100,000 return and another item results in $1,000 return, then 
you know where the resources will be directed.

Please don't ask for time-lines, since I do not have any projections at this 
point.

BTW thank you to many of you who wrote regarding to the new webpage and 
other inquires.  As I said before, I do not monitor the list since I have to 
get other things done, but if you have a direct question, I will do my best 
to give you an answer.  Please use mgmt at fptech.com so that I can separate 
from other company email.
See ya!

 ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> To: <Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 6:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Your involvement
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>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:50:54PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
>>> Now that we have you talking, could you please address the future past 
>>> 5.6?
>>
>> And (unsurprisingly), a blinding hush fell over the room.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
>> -- 
>> Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
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