Navision - Damgaard merger

mfabian

In the last days we could read and see what the marketing- and sales-people think about the Navision-Damgaard merger. But the press-release which is found on the Navision and Damgaard homepages is dedicated to shareholders not to the developers of Fin and Axapta.

Now I would like to hear some opinions from developers. In fact it's us who will be most affected by this merger:

Will we all have the privilege to learn JAVA? How long do you think will it take until both programs (Navision and Axapta) will be merged into ONE application? And how will this new application and developement environment look like?

I know that nobody has an answer to these questions at this very moment but I'd like to know what your intuition tells you.

Marcus

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Marcus Fabian
m.fabian@thenet.ch
+41 79 439 78 72

John_Tegelaar

Even if the joined companies would start working on a new joined version of their products today, I would guess it would take more than a year before a release comes in sight.

Knowing Navision is close to releasing version 3.0, assuming the C/AL development environment is not going to change very much in there (see the other discussion on this), looking at the differences in approach at current state (heavily depending on Microsoft technology at Navision, less prescriptive at Damgaard), it is quite safe to predict we will have a few more grey hairs before being able to code in Java is required for Navision :-)

Taking it all together, I would set my bet on Microsoft's .Net technology as future development environment.

John

mayer

... and what about SQL ?

mfabian

SQL has not so much to do with the developement environment. You can issue SQL statements from Java as well as from Microsoft.Net. So what's your point?

Marcus

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Marcus Fabian
m.fabian@thenet.ch
+41 79 439 78 72

Richard

I think, that in the future We work in SQL <img border="0" title="" alt="" src="images/smiles/icon_sad.gif" />

I do not like , but .... Axapta work in SQL and Navision in SQL not bad.

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LT