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CALL FOR FOCUS TRIVIA!

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March 03, 2006, 12:05 PM
<Maryellen>
CALL FOR FOCUS TRIVIA!
Do you have any trivia or humorous stories regarding FOCUS 25 years ago?

For example: What release was out in 1981? or How has FOCUS changed in the last 25 years?

Carol Dobson is compiling this information in preparation for the New England FOCUS User Group's 25th anniversary and could really use some help!

So please email your trivia, stories, and suggestions to CDobson@BabsonCapital.com

Thanks!

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July 28, 2006, 02:06 AM
susannah
Chris Boylan does.
He wrote the focus trivia slides for the Summit General Session this year.
Here's one:
What does WORP stand for?



In Focus since 1979///7706m/5 ;wintel 2008/64;OAM security; Oracle db, ///MRE/BID
October 10, 2006, 04:39 PM
Adolf Mergulhao
quote:
WORP

Having not seen that word before is it :-

wireless outdoor router protocol


Webfocus 7.6.2 on Windows Enterprise 2003 Server and
Webfocus 7.6.2 on HP Unix Server
April 10, 2007, 02:26 PM
Francis Mariani
Tricky one, that.

Apparently an old acronym for B.I.D.

"WebFOCUS Open Reporting Portal".


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
April 10, 2007, 04:23 PM
FrankDutch
how about this one

how many floppies (the big ones) did you need to load the PC-Focus software version 4.

(I do not know the answer anymore, but it was a lot)

Frank




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
test: WF 7.6.10 on the same platform and databases,IE7

April 10, 2007, 09:58 PM
Kathleen Butler
Hi there - Interested in the Focal Point Tip and Technique contest?
April 12, 2007, 04:22 PM
FrankDutch
yes Kathleen, but still thinking of a worthfull tip.




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
test: WF 7.6.10 on the same platform and databases,IE7

April 17, 2007, 11:57 PM
Håkan
Frank,

I'm not sure, but if I remember correctly, there was a pile of 12 or 13 floppies.

Håkan


WebFOCUS DS 8.0.06/08 DS/AS
WebFOCUS RS 8.0.08 (Linux/IBM i)
WebFOCUS Client 8.0.06 (Linux)
April 27, 2007, 10:21 AM
hammo1j
I remember in 1984 a FOCUS writing colleague going off to work for an RDBMS company in Reading called Oracle.

I said that RDBMS'es would never take off because they were an unrealistic and inefficient simplification of an application's data structure, but, hey, look what happened - think he even had share options.

Despite that, recently I had the opportunity to do some DBAing for an Oracle Datawarehouse and I swear they'd have still been better off 20 years down the line loading the stuff up as XFOCUS.


Server: WF 7.6.2 ( BID/Rcaster) Platform: W2003Server/IIS6/Tomcat/SQL Server repository Adapters: SQL Server 2000/Oracle 9.2
Desktop: Dev Studio 765/XP/Office 2003 Applications: IFS/Jobscope/Maximo
July 19, 2007, 01:30 PM
<Chacha>
Here is one for you ... What was FML originally called?
July 19, 2007, 07:10 PM
jimster06
How about EMR (Extended Matrix Reporting)?


jimster06
DevStu WF 7.6.11
W7
HTML, PDF, EXL2K
July 20, 2007, 05:15 AM
Håkan
EMR was a late invention. It started off as SML (Small Modelling Language). After that it became FML, which was replaced by EMR.


WebFOCUS DS 8.0.06/08 DS/AS
WebFOCUS RS 8.0.08 (Linux/IBM i)
WebFOCUS Client 8.0.06 (Linux)
July 20, 2007, 07:08 AM
Jessica Bottone
I have one for you.... What came before EDA?


Data Migrator 5.3, 7.1, 7.6
WebFOCUS 7.1, 7.6, 7.7
SQL Server, Oracle, DB2
Windows
July 23, 2007, 10:09 AM
Håkan
Jessica, that must have been Focnet.

Håkan


WebFOCUS DS 8.0.06/08 DS/AS
WebFOCUS RS 8.0.08 (Linux/IBM i)
WebFOCUS Client 8.0.06 (Linux)
July 23, 2007, 12:35 PM
stuey
Hakan,

FRL was in there somewhere too.


WF 8005 MRE BID RCaster DevStu PMF 5.3.1 Hotfix 5
XP Oracle.