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DE8.5 or DE8.6 investment.


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DE8.5 or DE8.6 investment.


Here comes an investment question. 

 We now want to equip our second subsidiary with DATAEASE.
At our headquarters we work with DE8.5.
Should we buy DE8.5 or will we get 8.6 soon?
Or can we then upgrade then to 8.6 for free?
We would like to decide this at short notice and a short information about this would be great.
Thank you
With kind regards Markus


Written by grohmann.papier@t-online.de 15/02/18 at 10:11:11 Dataease [{8}]FIVE

Re:DE8.5 or DE8.6 investment.

Hi Markus.

Moneywise there is no reason to wait.

There is no plans to change the prices but we all know they don't get lower and as there is free upgrade for all 8.x users from 8.0 to 8.99 it will include 8.6 too.

As you are one of the eager users I think you will find a lot of stuff in 8.6 that you will spend some time looking into so it might be beneficiary for you to get the existing system out and in use before spending some enjoyable time getting to know 8.6.

8.6 is a number that belie the true jump forward from 8.5.

Just of the top of my head:

Service Windows - 4 Web Browser Windows that can be glued to any side of the workbench and freely sized that in short will replace all existing Toolbars/File Menus/Tabbars etc. Fully configurable by developer and have full access to Active Form in both DT/RT as well as ability to execute any action in DataEase.


AnyLookup()  -- Lookup values from any Table in your Application without the need of a pre-defined relationship.
All text functions and internal processing of text changed from 255 to 4GB.
ExecDQL been consolidated in one function and it will return formatted body so you can do
ex. concat(ExecDQL(...),ExecDQL(....),"hello")
finally a memo (or really large text 4gb) text variable. (we also have extended setvar()/Getvar() to 4gb but that is another story).
define "MyMemo" memo .
myMemo := ExecDQL(any MyDQLs with DQLID=10 DQL,data-entry field1,"","","","",any MyDQLs with DQLID=10 Body) .
for MyTable ;
list records
MyMemo;
MyCustomerName .

And all this is just since christmas... and the last release of 8.5 was march last year.


Written by DataEase 15/02/18 at 11:26:48 Dataease [{8}]FIVE
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