Then again, it's not surprising to see a large drop in male students, considering how hostile and anti-male an environment so many universities have become.
I'll go along with this. I've been using Omnis, in various incarnations, since 1986! It's a wonderful, very powerful tool.
It's mostly a database development system. It has its own (SQL) database engine or you can develop the GUI front-end for just about any of the big engines (Oracle, Sybase, etc, etc) or lots of others through ODBC.
It's mature, fully cross-platform and fully object-oriented. The web tool lets you deploy your app through a browser.
I work for a software company now, coding in Omnis, Oracle, and PERL, but I cranked Omnis code for almost ten years at Nortel. So it is used by some of the big, enterprise-scale employers. Not to speak of hundreds of small-medium businesses. Omnis is what PowerBuilder wants to be if it ever grows up.:-)
Yeah, this is commercial software, but it truly is "best of breed." Strong, supportive developer community, too.
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Then again, it's not surprising to see a large drop in male students, considering how hostile and anti-male an environment so many universities have become.
Feminist bigotry is taking its toll.
I'll go along with this. I've been using Omnis, in various incarnations, since 1986! It's a wonderful, very powerful tool.
:-)
It's mostly a database development system. It has its own (SQL) database engine or you can develop the GUI front-end for just about any of the big engines (Oracle, Sybase, etc, etc) or lots of others through ODBC.
It's mature, fully cross-platform and fully object-oriented. The web tool lets you deploy your app through a browser.
I work for a software company now, coding in Omnis, Oracle, and PERL, but I cranked Omnis code for almost ten years at Nortel. So it is used by some of the big, enterprise-scale employers. Not to speak of hundreds of small-medium businesses. Omnis is what PowerBuilder wants to be if it ever grows up.
Yeah, this is commercial software, but it truly is "best of breed." Strong, supportive developer community, too.
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