We started with Omnis5 and upgraded to Omnis7, all on Macs. Then the client (major bank) went to NT and we just rolled out the same code on that platform. For a while, we supported both Mac and NT platforms with common code, until the Macs had all been retired. With several years invested in two major applications, they must have saved about a million dollars in rewrite costs.
Both applications are solid and reliable and are supported and continually enhanced by a team with a budget of of 1.1 persons per year. Hence very low running costs.
From a techy point of view, I love coding Omnis, especially Omnis Studio - it just performs anything I want it to do. But from a businessman's point of view, the long term cost of ownership is superbly competitive.
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We started with Omnis5 and upgraded to Omnis7, all on Macs. Then the client (major bank) went to NT and we just rolled out the same code on that platform. For a while, we supported both Mac and NT platforms with common code, until the Macs had all been retired. With several years invested in two major applications, they must have saved about a million dollars in rewrite costs. Both applications are solid and reliable and are supported and continually enhanced by a team with a budget of of 1.1 persons per year. Hence very low running costs. From a techy point of view, I love coding Omnis, especially Omnis Studio - it just performs anything I want it to do. But from a businessman's point of view, the long term cost of ownership is superbly competitive.