>Terry,
>I saw that you mentioned Flagship in a different thread (Whil moving to Linux I think). Have you used Flagship? (anyone else feel free to respond also) Is it a good product?
>I went to their website (www.fship.com). The webpage has not been updated since July 2003 and that got me a little worried. The product seems interesting.
>Anyways I was just wondering if anybody here on UT had some thoughts to share about Flagship.
>
>Thanks,
>Einar
Einar - I have used flagship off and on since 95 and keep current with whats going on with the product. I've deployed two commercial sites using it - last one was in 2001 and it went offline in 2003.

I originally liked it cause i could take clipper code STOCK and recompile with little changes . I had been meandering back and forth in 95 with this product on unix and linux vs TSX-32/FPD2.6 . all n all each product provided an end result I wanted - the ability to telnet into a box and run a database program [in either FPD or in Flagship]. I felt the FS product was superior because it had true OO stuff in it then [and has more now].

Of course - there is some issue about the FoxPro Structural Index files - but that was provided as an additional library.

CGI tools and interfaces were added later so that data could be slung to a web browser via apache ...

All n all I think it is a good product - but you won't see [imo] firms spec'ing out for Flagship developers. If you have a service bureau type of company - its a great product for what it does..


I've been dinking around in my lab with it recently making a linux cluster and running it on the cluster'd 'server' .. It's rather robust still but did not really see any significant improvements with my benchmark tests...
I was hoping for 2 to 4 times difference in i/o - but i think i need to do some other optimization for it .

when i was first using it - it was available for OSF/1 and would run on my DEC Alpha box. That was a cool beastie to play with - but i never deployed anything with that particular combination.

let me know how it works out for you ?
mondo regards [Bill]