Hi Mecki: It doesn't matter if the staff is more productive or not, that is not our job. We have given them what Google, Microsoft, Oracle and whomever have. That browser front-end is rich with functionality, easy of use, and can be color customized at a flip of a switch. If we don't give them attractive front-end then the next thing you'll hear will be the door hitting your bottom on the way out.
We work with HTML, JavaScript, Java, UOJ, and UniBasic. This is more work: we have five functional pieces of software instead of one. We want our clients and users to have the best we can offer that will allow them to do their job with the software is not getting in their way. What we should be doing is to make changes to software to accommodate differing business needs. With Universe and Unidata databases, we can add dictionary items on the fly, add prompts to screens, and changing report selections, all with in a few hours. The big boys are still gathering requirements and in meetings, when we deliver those requested changes. In order to do this you must have the skill set, training, and state of the art tools. Why do you think a boutique software company like U2logic has been pushing the edge to give the U2 market the finest tools we can? Because we are competing with the big boys who have state of the art tools and are not using AE or ED to create and edit programs. Those of us using XLr8Editor, with continuous compile, know before we actually compile it whether our code will be syntax clean. How is that not making U2 programmers even more productive? Regards, Doug www.u2logic.com/tools.html "Eclipse based XLr8Editor for U2" _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
