MY Eyes have been opened

[Christopher Yerry]

After reading through the last few days of comments I
have had my eyes opened. I am a 14 year user of
filepro. I also Code In Vis Studio.NET and Own and run
a Microsoft Shop (.NET, Java, SQL, Oracle, filePro). I
do a LOT of filePro work in the Twin Cities. I trained
in filePro in 1988 in the old building in westchester
(I am NY native). Filepro was a very viable company
with good support and a good programing staff.

I joined this user group to find out the answers to
some of the odder questions I have come across. But I
am having problems justifying some of the goings on
here and at the filePro corporate level.

filePro odbc - needs to be marketed as ODBC READER not
ODBC; and lets face it most of us had written our own
readers in qbasic back in the 1980's. We have a reader
and a writer here that is fully web compliant (ASP.NET
Web Service) WE WROTE IT IN A WEEK !! It reads the
table maps updates the data and the indexes that's
read! and write!.

filepro XML
again this is a 1 week project I understand R&D but it
doesn't take that long. (6 mos at the most). 

Remember OS2 - great operating system years ahead of
its time - it didn't die because it didn't work it
died because we got sick of waiting for it!! Just
because the faithful are happy with the status quo
doesn't excuse the fact that (some of) the rest of us
feel filepro has left us to fend for ourselves. I have
great respect for Ken and the work he has done - I
sometimes wonder if he is the only one there
(apologies to RAY if he is listening).

I cannot recommend filepro to my customers with a
clear conscience. I am afraid they may never call me
again. I would rather give them a simple solution
rather than MY SQL and ASP.NET - Bill doesn't need any
more of my money. Quick and out is nice and filePro
does it well .. but are they still going to be here in
anything past a (on life support) effort.

Lastly
Tyler (if you don't know who he is where have you
been) didn't ask to be a filepro programmer, He's a
Java guy who had this dumped on him. with a boss with
expectations that filepro should do everything java
can do 

Was he rude - I think he was more frustrated than rude
- but this isn't the friendliest place in the world.
You need some new blood in here in it shouldn't end up
on the floor!! If the new kids don't use it what hope
is there!!

Yes I am in my late 40's I learned COBOL on punch
cards, I went to stony Brook University when only the
graduate students could use the TELETYPES (gasp).
But this isn't 1976 can someone assure me some life is
coming into this product - I am not a B Gates fan I
would love to give someone else some business - I also
have a wife and 5 children to feed. I was blown away
25 years ago with what this product could do .. Ill
take modestly happy please get me to that point

And by the way

I can have a fully operational up AND DEPLOYED
ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD app with reports in 1 day - I'm
tired of the ITS FAST; Drop some boxes attach to the
sql and publish it on the web (with 64 bit security)
and it will run in Lin ix - for that matter it will
run on an Apple. filePro's not that fast !!!

Modular Code - HA
Sharing Code  - NO One answered my distributed 
                programmer question; we all fell in 
                the I'm THE ONLY ONE category
Functions / Code Libraries (Can you say cut and paste)

If I have someone here cut and paste a piece of code
from another program into a new one that could be a
function they don't work here anymore. Out of sync
versions of code kill software shops

thanks in advance to all the griping answers I will
get from this but ... Its not cutting it - and I am a
fan!!

Christopher Yerry
Pres CM Software
Minneapolis MN

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