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Re:Windowa must die ... Lite or 10X will be soon


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Re:Windowa must die ... Lite or 10X will be soon

Windows is just an operating system and we can't falsify history. DataEase for Windows was Arun all the way. Not the horrible implementation of DQL but Express was his child. True, he had conceptually moved away from DataEase when he did it. DataEase Professional was his baby and this product ended up first as Enterprise Developer (Symantec) then via via before it ended back up with DataEase (Sapphire) as NetPlus.

DataEase Professional was even more married to Windows than DataEase for Windows so the idea that Arun was not a Windows person is simply not correct. What he in many ways had ended up as was not a DataEase person. He had moved on to make the "best" Windows development platform on top of SQL. Any compatibility with Dataease and implementation was in truth detrimental to both products. 

DataEase Professional should never have been related to DataEase (which is why they split up in many ways) and DataEase for Windows should never have been based on this code.

The problem was that as the code was designed to cover both DataEase for WIndows and DataEase Professional it was to complex and idealistically designed which made it extremely difficult to debug. We are struggling with this till this day and NetPlus was never close to not being a bug-ridden product.

The death of DataEase for DOS has been prophesied on a regular basis since the late 80ies but it is still with us today and I don't think anyone will again even try to predict its demise. The same goes for WIndows. It was supposed to be dead together with the Desktop computer decades ago but what is it we see? Pc sales is on the rebound and all with Windows on them.

We are not living under the illusion that Windows will get its position back, but as a platform for development tool it is the best for "normal" people.

And as things stand at the moment our code base is WIndows based and to move it away from that is not a priority in the short to medium term.

The problem was never Windows but Dataease. There was no technical reason for not implementing DQL or the entire DFD product in Windows if that was the goal. 

The world have moved on and the job is not to re-implement DFD but to make a Dataease that new generation will "love" as much as people living back in the 80s did.


Written by DataEase 04/11/19 at 12:42:49 DataEase 9 Developer
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