using a mac with linux and filepro

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Walter Vaughan
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:33 AM
> To: filePro
> Subject: Re: using a mac with linux and filepro
>
>
> John Esak wrote:
>
> > C'mon Walter, you've spent more on software this year than you
> have in the
> > past 20??  Which software and why?
>
> Apache Open for Business http://ofbiz.apache.org
> Opentaps http://www.opensourcestrategies.com
>
> For training, customizations, and technical support.

Okay, I see the good $$ sense here in one word used... support. That changes
everything... and puts the stuff into a "different" catergory in my mind.


> > If you're not interested in software that costs money... why do you
> > constantly read and write things in this list, which is about filePro?
>
> Uh, it's been a part of my daily life for a long time. I've given myself
> deadlines to stop reading this list, and seem to fail. Once we
> decommission our
> main filePro apps in a few weeks maybe I should. Its a hard habit
> to break. :)
> I'm still writing/editing tools to migrate our data from filePro
> into PosgreSQL
> tables.

I understand your frustration at not being able to leave this list... and it
being a hard habit to break. However, in no regards should you think that I
*want* you to leave this list. On the contrary, even when you do completely
leave filePro (which you have been threatening to do forever.. :-), I hope
you  continue to contribute here.  Your thoughts and ideas have always been
valuable. I think you would stay around and maintain the sense of how
valuable filePro has been to you over the many years... and not take the
attitude so many have that moving on to bigger and better things detracts
that much more from filePro. Obviously, it doesn't and as character based
apps go, filePro is pretty much head and shoulders above anything else left
out there... no reason to batter it just because something else does a job
more easily or whatever.



> <topic drift>
>
> I did have an idea that could make your accounting app work in a
> method that
> would allow for you to keep improving it, and yet allow
> developers to make
> changes to their systems and not break things.

I appreciate the idea... and I *did* investigate the whole SCM thing when
you mentioned it several months ago. And thank you for the suggestions. I
did find it to be out of league with what filePro is doing and it just
didn't seem a worthwhile enough match up to make the investment in time and
more time...  but thanks anyway. I'm still struggling with how to make
changes... but I'm sort of taking the attitude that whatever I provide will
remain a template system and people can take what they want from it each
time something new gets added, but they have to do most of this on their own
terms. There really isn't enough money in this type of an app based on
anything... let alone filePro. I do most of it because I can, and becuase it
is desperately needed by some...

Good luck on your migration away and beyond filePro... don't forget your
roots. :-)

John Esak