More Aussie DevCon commentary

Russ Eggen passed along some comments from Aussie DevCon attendee Kim Davies, with Kim's permission to publish those comments in the mag:

Best one I've been to. The support from 3rd Party developers was astounding with prizes and gifts and discounts. The SV guys did a great job and really boosted the confidence of everyone attending with their demo's and training. Very enlightening.

The ability to use Clarion7 Win32 mixed with .Net and vice-versa was something to see. Not straight forward yet, but I assume, eventually it will be.

The issue now, will be for most 3rd Party Developers to reposition themselves in light of the .Net product. Even though Claion7 Win32/64 whatever, will continue to have a lifecycle of it's own, I belive the majority will eventually migrate to the .Net platform. And competition in the component world is steep.

I must admit, I felt that the appgen was pretty impressive, but they said most of the problems relate to the conversion process.

Kim's sentiments echo what I've been hearing from other attendees. Although AppGen wasn't made available there clearly were a lot of positives to the event.

As I've said before, .NET brings both challenges and opportunities for Clarion third party vendors. Yes, there's a lot of .NET code out there and some of that readily replaces existing third party products. On the other hand if you create a third party product for Clarion#, and it isn't tied to something that's uniquely Clarion (such as the template language or the file driver system), your potential market is suddenly not just Clarion developers but all .NET developers.

Posted: June 5 2008