ODW? -- BPCS-L

Unfortunately SSA has a tendency of renaming their tools.  So it can be
confusing as to what is used and when.

ODW Object Development Workbench can be one of several things.

An OS2 based tool to create their client code, such as CEA, also used to
create their "windows front end" panels in their client/server mode.

There is another version of the tool that is Windows NT based to do the
"windows front end" panels.  But this NT version does not support the client
code, for CEA or COM.

The OS/2 version of the tool has not been released.  I'm not sure about the
Windows NT version.

I say "windows front end" for lack of a better term.  (screen scrapper?)

If you go client/server on V6 you cannot make modifications to the client
portion of the programs (ex.  CEA) unless you contract that out from SSA.

joegreen@execpc.com
Unbeaten Path International
http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Devous <cdevous@antigua.com>
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: ASSET Y2K Dating


I was under the impression that ODW is not for AS/SET development, but
rather is a
tool for BPCS v6 client development.  Iz I wrong?

[snip]

> ODW is supposed to be GA soon, running under Win NT.  Then again, Riz
>Shakir
> announced it at the Fall '95 AS/Set Users' Group meeting and we have yet
to
> see it.  One can only hope, but the demo I saw in December '98 didn't look
> ready yet...
>
>
> Errrrrr, OS/2 is the greatest operating system ever written except for
MAC/OS
> and OS/400.  Too bad IBM wasn't as good at marketing it as they were at
> writing it.  OS/2 runs Windoze applications better than Windoze.  Windoze
> doesn't run OS/2 applications at all -- monopoly, NAAAAAH!  Mine smokes
too,
> especially when I try to run a '95 app on '98 or NT ;-)...
>

OS/2 was technically very good, but poorly marketed, sort of like the MCA
bus
architecture that IBM came out with in the early-mid 80's.

But, of course, the BEST O/S EVER WRITTEN was Kernighan & Ritchie's first
version of UNIX.  Now, there was an O/S written to support the REAL users of
computer equipment:  PROGRAMMERS!



---------------------------
Christopher J. Devous
Director of Systems Development
The Antigua Group, Inc.
cdevous@antigua.com
http://www.antigua.com
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