Not Linux!apais wrote:Anyway I seriously doubt Windows will give their desktop market to Linux.
But, IOS, Blackberry and Android (Linux kernel based) are serious candidates.
The Linux opportunity was the Vista failure, but no distribution was able to catch the moment.
IMHO, sadly, no Linux distribution was (is) mature enough to be a Windows replacement and the new users behavior regarding computers (only Internet applications matters) caused the success of the operating systems already mentioned.
Even when you host your data in your own (internal) server, Internet technology can be used anyway (in fact this is very usual).apais wrote: And,...
There will be allways a bunch of people ( mostly developpers, designers ... ) who wont like their data be hosted on a foreign location for obvious security reasons.
It could be possible in a medium/large term future.apais wrote: On the other side: javascript is an interpreter module in borwsers, and harbour is a pcode machine. Who says in the future we can't use harbour as client side scripting languaje ? Only our own lack of imagination as developpers...
I think that an approach closer to the Harbour compiler developers thinking, could be the creation of a Harbour to PHP translator.
The hardest part of this, will be the re-creation of all Harbour functions in PHP.
Of course, there is a serious thing to solve: The interaction with the user.
PHP could send HTML+JavaScript code to the client to emulate our beloved @...SAY...GET experience. The true problem are the wait states (READs). They will require a big trick, but it could be done.
Just some thinking...