Hello Peter --

There used to be kick-butt property management software named Skyline but I haven't heard anything about it in years. You might want to do a web-search, it may still be around and thriving.

I would be concerned going to a DOS solution only in that we don't know how long the friendly old DOS window will still be around.

Dataflex?? ROFL....I worked with that bad boy on a Televideo TurboDOS system (multiuser CP/M) years and years ago....is Data Access Corp. still alive???


>One of my clients is a large residential property managmenent firm. I have been maitaining a custom DOS-based system written in DataFlex for some years. The system is not Y2K compatible and the client wanted a more modern system. They chose one called StarSite from GEAC.
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>The system uses Visual Basic with Access or SQL-server depending on the size of the files. During testing the SQL-server version appeared to be quite buggy, so they decided to install the DOS based system at their main site temporarily while waiting for the system to mature. They installed the Access-based system at seven satellite locations.
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>After nine-months they are replacing the Starsite Access system with the original DOS-Btrieve system called Powersite. They have just completed the first downgrade and are quite pleased with the results.
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>Reasons:
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>PowerSite is much faster from the users point of view even on old hardware.
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>More stable.
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>Starsite was corrupting tables and the vendor blamed Access-NT communication.
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>I find this quite interesting. As I mentioned in another thread I am very concerned about the execution speed of VFP O-O systems.
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>Peter Robinson
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>From the GEAC site:
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>Geac Property Management Solutions(GPMS), formerly AMSI, is the
>leading provider of Windows and DOS property management and
>accounting solutions.
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>StarSeries Hardware Requirements
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>StarSite (Access Version): Personal computer with a Pentium 166
>processor required, recommended Pentium 233 processor Microsoft
>Windows 95 (service pack 1) or Microsoft WindowsNT Workstation
>operating system Version 4.0 (service pack 3) or later. Will not
>run on earlier versions of Windows!
>Memory: required 32MB, recommended 64MB
>Hard disk space to be published at a later date. If you only use
>functions associated with PowerSite/CMS, disk space requirements
>should be approximately 30% more than for the DOS products.
>One (1) CD-ROM drive
>SVGA 256 color video adapter or higher
>Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
>A word processing package is recommended for mail merge purposes.
>Recommend Word 95 or later pcAnywhere and modem at the home office
>and all sites Access 97 at home office, recommended for all sites
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>PowerSeries Hardware Requirements
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>Single-User System Requirements:
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>PC (with at least 386 processor) running DOS 5.0 or higher
>640k RAM (570k free after booting) if installing PSR, DIS, R4S or BCL
>512k RAM (460k free after booting) if using products other than PSR,
>DIS, R4S or BCL DOS and network client software should be loaded
>high(upper memory) when possible 3.5" diskette drive
>Printer
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>Single-User Recommended:
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>PC with a 486 processor or greater
>DOS 6.0 or higher ( Can operate in a Windows environment )
>4 mg total RAM or greater
>Mouse
>Color Monitor