[Info-vax] FMS and Datatrieve

[JF Mezei]

Keith Cayemberg wrote:

> However, in what sense is DECforms or TDMS a replacement for FMS, 

DEC miscalculated that one. It saw FMS as "legacy" and wanted a new
forms management with different philosophy and potential to support both
character cell and x windows.

In hindsight, it should have upgraded FMS to support decwindows (and
there are rumours that this was done but never released)

DEC underestimated the amount of FMS in use. It didn't even realise that
its own ALLIN1 intrinsically relied on it.


Remember that in the early 1990s, Windows Weenies were used to having to
start everything from scratcg with every new release, so I guess DEC
thought it could do the same.

Like many of Palmer's moves, they were made from such a detached high
level that they were bonehead moves. (Like abandonning DECdocument
without realising that all of DEC's own documentation was written in it
and it would cost a huge amount of money to convert it all).