Well I was astounded!!
Having travelled from India after seeing clients to Sri Lanka, a country I have not visited before, I met my only customer. A small team of developers in a Government agency that were developing an ERP system to suit their Utility.
We had not met in person before and had only corresponded by email on issues that they had either in Deployment or in some minor issues in coding. Meeting this customer was a great experience. We discussed the application with their management and developers, and we presented aspects of where Uniface was headed in the upcoming releases, we discussed RIA, we discussed the various training methods and modules..... and then came the statement from them.....
We have never had any training in Uniface!
Well, as in my opening remark.... I was astounded!!!
These developers had written ( although they had source code given to them by the VAR) modules and aspects of the application without any formal training.
I could not let this go and probed a bit more. The customer had a VAR application that the VAR no longer wanted to keep. The Customer asked for the source code and trained themselves in developing Uniface code even developing Uniface services. Wow!! now that is testimont to ease of use of Uniface. Sure there was some things that could be done more effectively or perhaps more efficiently, but they did indeed develop modules to this application which have now been deployed live.
I wonder what other development languages are out there that could be as good as this?
Having travelled from India after seeing clients to Sri Lanka, a country I have not visited before, I met my only customer. A small team of developers in a Government agency that were developing an ERP system to suit their Utility.
We had not met in person before and had only corresponded by email on issues that they had either in Deployment or in some minor issues in coding. Meeting this customer was a great experience. We discussed the application with their management and developers, and we presented aspects of where Uniface was headed in the upcoming releases, we discussed RIA, we discussed the various training methods and modules..... and then came the statement from them.....
We have never had any training in Uniface!
Well, as in my opening remark.... I was astounded!!!
These developers had written ( although they had source code given to them by the VAR) modules and aspects of the application without any formal training.
I could not let this go and probed a bit more. The customer had a VAR application that the VAR no longer wanted to keep. The Customer asked for the source code and trained themselves in developing Uniface code even developing Uniface services. Wow!! now that is testimont to ease of use of Uniface. Sure there was some things that could be done more effectively or perhaps more efficiently, but they did indeed develop modules to this application which have now been deployed live.
I wonder what other development languages are out there that could be as good as this?
