Hullo Einar -
here is a firm that actually uses it:
https://www.flextel.ltd.uk/cgi-bin/secure.sh?page=A107671
came across my vfp spider engine this morning.
mondo regards [Bill]
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>Bill,
>Thanks for your reply. I have not had a chance to play with Flagship yet. Your reply was encouraging and I might turn to you for more help once I have some more specific questions.
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>Sincerely,
>Einar
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>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].
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>>Of course - there is some issue about the FoxPro Structural Index files - but that was provided as an additional library.
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>>CGI tools and interfaces were added later so that data could be slung to a web browser via apache ...
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>>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..
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>>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 .
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>>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.
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>>let me know how it works out for you ?
>>mondo regards [Bill]