Re: - Calling all Aussies


Excalibur wrote:
Hi Jim
I am trying to justify the cost of the trip as airfares plus 3 nights in a
hotel plus 4 days off work is significant, a point often overlooked by
presenters. I also appreciate that presentations cost a lot. Melbourne is a
lot easier to get to.
I recently worked through the tutorial on Cache web interface. Two points.
I was disappointed about the total lack of any mention of multivalue.

The standard download is not the MV enabled version is the issue. There
is going to be a download from www.intersystems.com/mv before too long
(I am a bit hesitant to promise exactly when but very soon) which will
become the standard release. You will see that the getting started web
page then has its own section for MV and that this is part of the
standard docs.

A
basic (short) treatise on how to debug the web interface would make a major
difference. Of course it may be there and I just did not find it.

I can probably point you in the right direction, but the best thing is
probably to wait until after the presentation, when we will be
providing Australian VARS/users with direct support. Do not forget that
there is the google group CACHEMV too, where you can ask specific
questions that might not be too relevant to this group.

Overall I was very impressed. Like everything however I have to find a
market to justify it. I was at your first presentation at Melbourne Zoo
(Jbase) and hit the same stumbling blocks then. I think that any small
business has the same problem.

Yes indeed. That is why you will be assigned someone who can hold your
hand through the process.

A switch to something like OpenQM is much
easier as Bruce has ably shown. Personally I still like D3 but am concerned
that I and my clients may be left swinging after 30 years that is not a nice
thought. We are lucky in Australia to have TData.

Once you see the MV side of Cache I think that you will find that it
isn't difficult to migrate at all. It shoudl be: MVIMPORT d3backup,
LOGTO PROGS, BASIC BP {CATALOG BP}. I can't gurantee that every nuance
of every version of MV will work right out the box, but the MV import
of Cahcce is designed to be a lot easier to migrate to than jBASE as
jBASE had a different emphaisis, being the 'run on the native platform'
emphasis, wheras Cache is first and foremost a really fast database and
therefore the environment is much more amenable to MV.

We did think of coming down to melbourne for a day and we may still do
so if enough people wanted us to :-)

Jim
PS: I am staying away from Cricket :-(

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