During our daily work to improve our Gupta migration C# library (the PPJ Framework) and support to partners working on projects, we usually encounter a good number of bugs trying to migrate to .NET. They are coming from the customers' original Gupta code and have been hidden for a long time. In man...

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I was working on an old application of mine the other day, and when I say old I mean very old. It's a SqlWindows 5.0.2 application running against a 5.2.0 SqlBase on Netware 3.12. Development started back in 1993, it was finished in 1995 and runs more or less without problems ever since. I had to a...

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I returned few days ago from San Paulo, Brazil. We went there to meet with Unisystem, Gupta's exclusive distributor for Brasil until 2008, to talk to their CEO and sales people in anticipation to their entrance in the Gupta migration market. Everyone warned me about San Paulo: it's dangerous, be ca...

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