>
why waste so much time on a corpse? Or are you suggesting we all load up
individual dumps? Some folks would, but I personally wouldn’t bother even
if I were still using Paradox.
<

“if I were still using Paradox”
Understand you are not using it. You have said that often.

I am using it. Others are using it. I have clients that are using it. We
all know what Paradox’s future is… but when a business is close to retiring
and needs a few more years, etc., they have no benefit to changing. They
know the risks and history and want to keep it running. I support it, keep
it running. 

One was told 4-5 years ago that their Paradox system would fail soon. The
cost to replace was enormous (to them). They recently remarked how they saved
so much money by not replacing it 4-5 years ago. Will it eventually fail,
sure. They will likely be retired / sell the business before then. And if/when
the business is sold, I will tell the new owner (as I did the current owner)
the honest risk of not replacing and the cost of replacing. Then they can
decide the future path.

For those that are using it I am just stating that the articles are not “gone.”
The code samples are not gone. If someone really needed something from that
stuff, I could likely find it. Also, most of the topics have been covered
in various forms in the posts over the years.


>
Then you'd have to build a website in a similar format to thedb. Then work
out the mySQL structures and transfer all the articles across from Mambo
to the new CMS. Good luck with that.
<

Not true. The articles and most of it is basic html, looks like one HTML
doc per article and if you keep the folder structure the links (mostly) work
to the code files. I do not know if it is ALL there, but there is a lot.
An archive could be just a list of html docs. Which basically what I have
locally.





Tom Krieg <tomkIGNORE@CAPSsdassociates.com.au> wrote:
>Well, you'd have to have a hosted web server running some form of CMS 
>such as Joomla. I doubt any service provider would let you run Mambo. 
>Then you'd have to build a website in a similar format to thedb. Then 
>work out the mySQL structures and transfer all the articles across from

>Mambo to the new CMS. Good luck with that. Of course it can be done. But

>why waste so much time on a corpse? Or are you suggesting we all load up

>individual dumps? Some folks would, but I personally wouln't bother even

>if I were still using Paradox.
>
>On 9/12/2023 4:20 pm, Kevin Zawicki wrote:
>> 
>> Chances are looking better...
>> 
>> I have a dump of the DBcommunity.com site.
>> It seems mostly usable, has all the articles, code, links, I can open
it
>> locally (mostly) and browse the contents.
>> 
>> I thought a few others here had a web dump like this?