readme.txt

Free business support system developed entirely in Sybase s PowerBuilder

README.TXT

SOHO 2000 is a free business support system developed entirely in Sybase's PowerBuilder.

LICENSE

SOHO-2000 conforms to GNU GPL (General Public Lincese) Version 2 which comes with this distribution. In case you don't have it look at http://www.gnu.org

HISTORY

Back in 1998 a Company named MCO Software decided to switch from legacy COBOL system to desktop applications with Microsoft Windows and PowerBuilder 5.0. At that time I was employed by MCO Software. The Idea behind our development was to develop the common class library with common data model to be used throughout other development process. We have designed a small business support application named SOHO-98 that is to be a base for future development.

After some time we realised that our present design is too complex and we got engaged in other develpoment activities, largely using the predesigned elements of SOHO-98 so little by little the whole project was put back in the drawer, never to be developed. Company continued development now based on PowerBuilder's PFC and completely new custom library and data model code-named "R2" comming from "REFLEX version 2" (since complete library of SOHO-98 was called "REFLEX v1" code named "R1")

Before I left the MCO Software I've acquired the exclusive copyright of "Reflex v1" and SOHO-98 source code and any derivates. SOHO-98 was not originally in English which I've translated (a good part of it), fixed some serious bugs, scrapped most of unusable parts and brought it to a SOHO-2000 version.

Lately I was getting to bussy doing other things so I wasn't finding much time to play with SOHO and I saw it again returning to the "drawer" which is very bad idea.

Personally I would really like to see someone joining me in a quest to fix this application and make it run.

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Dragomir Milivojevic
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