Name, address, contact info, web site, profession, company name, degrees, areas of expertise. 

 List the vertical markets you have done, and special niches you fill, even if obsolete today.  You may include the following information:

- Package name
- Market niche.
- Is this package still active and supported?  Mention it even if it is not; as you still have knowledge of the vertical market someone else may need.
- Is it for sale?  If so, do you have a price?
- Would you give it away?
- Would you support it for someone else’s customer?
- What platform(s) will it run on?
- Is it solely filePro, if not, what other programs does it use ? (Unix shell, PHP, etc.).
- Would you rate it as good, great, or excellent?
- What unique or tricky techniques does the program do?  

Name and contact info:

Larry Hoover, President, B.S., Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA
Susan Hoover, Vice President, B.S., Penn State University
Hoover Computer Services, Inc.
Founded 1984
4611 Bedford Blvd.
Wilmington, DE 19803
(302) 584-5853
larry@hoovercs.com
susan@hoovercs.com
http://hoovercs.com

 Platforms:
SCO Unix
Linux
Sun Solaris
Windows as clients

Experience:
25 years with Unix
20 years with filePro 

Other expertise:
Serious accounting knowledge
Unix shell scripting
Kermit scripts
Apache, some MYSQL, some PHP
Front Page
C,  Pascal, Z80 Assembler
Various forms of Basic 

Vertical Markets and Niches Still Supported:Full Accounting package (First State Accounting (FSA)) GL, AR, AP, IC, PR, POS
Job costing system, add on to FSA
Service module for service organizations, add on to FSA
Marina Package
Health Departments services and billing tracking system
Web Interface from filePro to MYSQL tables on Linux web server.
Shopping cart software  (X-cart)
County welfare office- services and client tracking
Credit card using filePro, FSA, and Monetra in Unix
Electronic Billing using X12 format for HIPAA
Sheriffs office ID Dept.
Scanning documents, linked to FSA accounting in filePro
Truck Trailer tracking package
Reading random text files for culling specific information
Truck Drivers Federal Log program
Orthotics inventory and billing system
Mental Health billing package 

Vertical Markets NOT Still Supported:
Dry Cleaning package
Tire store package
Structural skylight estimation package
County vaccination tracking program
County on site dental program
Furniture store sales and inventory
Little Caesars’ sales and inventory tracking system

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
8533 Mountainholly Dr.
Pikesville, Md 21208
Phone: 410-653-2813
Cell: 516-532-2062
Email: rkreiss@gccconsulting.net

Write custom software for niche markets:
1. Wholesale Distribution
2. Ladies Hosiery
3. Concierge medicine Marketing
4. Commercial Real Estate
5. Textile Brokerage
6. Sales Rep

All above are windows based filePro programs. Concierge Medicine Marketing
uses a Perl interface for credit card sales.

Wholesale Distribution:
1. interfaces with UPS Worldship to get back UPS tracking #'s. One
button access goes to Worldship website to get tracking information.
Option to get up to 5 other orders to get tracking info about.
2. Sends EDI invoices to customers - custom interface by J-lab

Ladies hosiery:
1. Handles EDI interface from J_lab

Concierge Medicine -
1. Has custom interface for credit card sales batch processing.
Interface written by Fairlight Consulting.

All packages are currently supported.

Textile Brokerage can be used by any commodity broker although the two
primary units of measure are yards and pounds. It will handle up to 6
commission splits, regular and blanket contracts. The system will
automatically calculate delivery dates for weekly or monthly shipments.

All packages are currently being used except for commercial real estate.

The brokerage, hosiery and rep programs are currently being used and I very
rarely receive phone calls for support. - Excellent programs

The distribution and concierge marketing programs are still undergoing
continuing development as new or update programming is add.

Programs for sale are Brokerage, Sales Rep, Hosiery and commercial real
estate. Prices based on number of users and the amount of customization
necessary, if any.

Distribution on with agreement of my client who originally contracted for
the program.

Concierge Medicine Marketing not for resale.

Support would be available on a fee basis.

Install and manage small Windows based networks.

Develop and support several software applications for the Long term care market (nursing homes) and vendors providing services to nursing homes.

In addition to the R.E.A.C.T. Barcode System used for tracking ancillary charges in nursing homes, I have written the R.E.A.C.T. Therapy Manager (management & billing software used in nursing home Rehabilitation Departments) and an Institutional Pharmacy Workflow Application which monitors the flow of prescriptions from arrival at the vendor to shipment/delivery to the customer (in this case correctional facilities). This vendor is the largest medication supplier to correctional facilities in the U.S.

Also sell and support small Windows networks, PC’s, and peripherals.

R.E.A.C.T. (Resident Expense & Ancillary Charge Tracking) Barcode System Long-Term Care (nursing homes)

For sale for:   $2,425 + several optional add-ons (<$1,000)

Ok to support other's customers.

Uses: filePro & Bob Rasmussen's PrintWizard
Windows & SCO Unix (Linux should present no problems)

Simple to use, very good.

Jean-Pierre Radley
New York City, New York

jpr@jpr.com

     I was born in 1932 in Neuilly-s-Seine.  It's a suburb of Paris, where
my family lived, and Neuilly simply was the location of the hospital.
Both of my parents were in the clothing manufacturing business.  My name
is probably part of what must have been a fashion or trend at the time,
since a great many of my contemporaries also have hyphenated names:
Jean-Loup, Marie-Anne, Paul-Henri...  It also seemed to the practice
for babies to have calling cards.  My earliest retained object is a
green leather case, somewhat less than 2" X 1 ", containing a few of
mine, reading "Jean-Pierre Radzinsky, 19 Avenue de l'Opra, Paris". The
building still stands; it's now a bank, though I don't know what the
ground floor was back in 1932; we lived on the fourth floor.

     Several years later, my father sensed that the advent of a man named
Hitler bode no good, so we embarked on the SS Normandie for New York,
where we landed on Christmas Eve of 1936. ("We" included my brother
Philippe, three years younger than I).  Our destination was Santiago de
Chile, but we had six-month visitors' visas for the States since there
were relatives to be seen from both sides of the family.  We were headed
for Chile because a childhood friend of my maternal uncle had been there
for a few years and was raving about the opportunities.

     But my parents were immediately taken with New York.  Riding what was
still an open upper deck on the Fifth Avenue double-decker buses, they
marveled at a country featuring ladies' bathing suits in department
store windows while the streets were white with snow.  No more Chile!
The Pleyel piano and the paintings and the rest of their furniture were
on a slow freighter, and it was possible to divert the cargo for a US
port.  Meanwhile, Philippe and I were left with relatives in Detroit for
a few months while my parents sought an apartment in New York and opened
a dressmaking business.

     We obtained our permanent immigration visas from the US consul in
Windsor, Ontario, and formally entered the US for good by driving
through the tunnel from Windsor to Detroit.  By the time that Philippe
and I were reunited with our parents -- it wasn't more than a few months
-- we answered in English when they spoke to us in French.  That's
hardly unusual, since he was 2 and I was 5 at the time.  My parents got
a lot of their English by sitting through movies several times: you
begin to get what the actors are saying after you've grasped the plot
and the situations.

     My father was born in Russia, which he escaped at age 15 about the time
that the Americans and the British were invading Odessa during WW-I.  My
mother was born in Paris, her parents having left Russia too.  My father
spoke Russian and Yiddish and French at the time.  My mother was barely
cognizant of Russian and Yiddish.  But they never made any effort to
impart any Russian or Yiddish to either of their children, which I much
regret.  I tried a Russian class at M.I.T., but was more than turned
off by a horrible instructor.  My brother had better luck, eventually
earning a PhD in Russian language and literature.  He taught Russian
at Amherst and Stony Brook (part of SUNY) before, at the age of 40,
becoming a lawyer specializing in domestic and international commerce,
and in immigration matters.

     While both of us started out schooling at the pre-eminent NYC PS 6,
neither of us finished there; we were enrolled at the Lyce Franais de
New-York.  France used to subsidize many clones of its lyces around
the world, in Cairo and Mexico City and Montreal and several dozen
other cities (I don't know if it still does).  Since the NY outpost was
chartered by the State of New York, 50% of the instruction had to be in
English.  So I studied English in English, of course, and soccer and
rest period and study period and ballroom dancing were also taught in
English.  Biology and history and mathematics and geology and chemistry
and physics and Latin and Spanish and literature and philosophy classes
were all taught in French.

     The French system ends in a series of oral and written examinations that
earns you the Baccalaureate.  The system assumes that none of the parts
are separate from the whole.  If you make three spelling or grammar
mistakes in a history or mathematics paper, you fail.  To this day, it
grates that jerks around the world type 'loose' when they mean 'lose',
'there' for 'their', 'sight' when it should be 'site'. Can I punch
through the errors and grok the meaning?  Sure, but it still enervates
me.  Language matters, spelling matters, and you'll ne'er convince me
otherwise.

     There were ponies around.  You could get little pocket books with the
geometry problem from Athens, 1922, or the trigonometry exam given in
Saigon, 1938, the literary analysis essay desired in Madrid, 1948,
or the physics challenge thrown forth in London in 1943 (and several
samples of the answers too).  My fondest memory is of my Latin Oral
(with several of my friends and relatives present).  The examiner
started out by saying, "M. Radley, your written translation paper had
more than a few errors.  But! They were eminently *logical* errors, and
we can understand how you made them."  Man, did Cartesian logic ever
reign!

     My parents separated shortly before I finished the Lyce.  Both had
been in the apparel business in New York too; my father drifted to Los
Angeles and Kansas City, while my mother was by then pretty established
as an important designer under her maiden name of Pauline Trigre.

     I set forth for M.I.T. in the fall of 1949. Since my Lyce classes
had already covered a good deal of the freshman curriculum at MIT, I
spent a lot of time on extracurricular matters like buying a Model A
Ford and teaching myself to drive; finding folk-dancing and folksong
groups to continue playing my guitar; discovering the long-gone Vega
company in Boston where I acquired a beautiful 5-string banjo; starting
a folksong program on WMIT; skiing; dating Radcliffe and Wellesley and
Tufts and Brandeis girls; exploring the restaurants of greater Boston;
and attending orchestral and chamber music concerts -- I'm now in my
52nd year as a BSO subscriber.

     I elected to major in Electrical Engineering, and stayed on for another
year for a Master's degree in Business Administration.  Both my
undergraduate and graduate theses were in speech analysis, a field which
is an amalgam of engineering, acoustics, linguistics, and psychology,
and which was the basis of all subsequent work in speech recognition
and synthesis. I worked for an engineering company for two summers, and
toured Europe for two others.

     I left MIT in 1955 but stayed on in Cambridge for another five years
as part of the management team of the Air Force Cambridge Research
Laboratories in Bedford, MA.  I was part of the initial planning of
the Atlas, the first US ICBM, and thus had immunity from the military
service draft.

     In 1960, I came back to New York to be the general manager of my
mother's firm, Trigre.  Life in the garment industry was fun in
those days.  Buyers had time for a good conversation, they were
well-rounded people who not only knew their customers and had good
taste, but they grasped clothing construction, they understood fit,
they appreciated textiles.  Over time, as big stores swallowed little
ones and as founders who knew their sales clerks were replaced by
anonymous stockholders, buyers evolved into fancy clerks who understood
spreadsheets and wallowed in reams of green-bar reports.

     I ducked out of the garment manufacturing business in the late 60s;
after two years as the import manager for S. Klein, then a thriving
low-end emporium, I became the general manager of Max's Kansas City.
Max's was a terrific steak house, but its main function was as a haven
for artists and musicians.  Andy Warhol held court in the back room,
Janis Joplin swilled her Southern Comfort at three in the afternoon, and
up-town swells filled the place every evening to gawk at the natives.
We'd do 500 dinners on any weekday evening, and 1300 on a Saturday
night.  Late in my Max's phase, I was involved in promoting the Attach
Phone, a six-pound precursor of today's cell phones.

     I returned to Trigre as President in 1971.  At MIT, I had learned a
lot about vacuum tubes, but a course on transistors only came about in
my senior year, and computers were not yet a classroom subject.  My
first exposure to computers was the Radio Shack PC-1.  I taught myself
BASIC on that computer during business flights around the US, and wrote
a program to estimate garment prices on that little device; it was in
continuous use until Trigre closed its doors in 1992.  I was one of
the first buyers of the Model II (with the obligatory complement of
Scripsit, VisiCalc, and Profile-16).  I taught myself Z-80 assembly
language too, and published several articles in RS's computer journal,
whose name I've forgotten.  I wrote an article on better formatting
of Unix man pages which appeared in one of Rebecca Thomas' UnixWorld
columns.  I was also contributing to Small Computer Company's Smalltalk,
and then to the Valar Group's Guru magazine.

     As my mother's long run on Seventh Avenue was drawing to a close, I
started to consult on computer matters for small clients in the Greater
New York area, which has afforded me fun and profit in the last decade.
I was a SysOp for several CompuServe Fora relating to Xenix, Unix, and
filePro, and to this day heavily participate in Unix newsgroups and
mailing lists, and very much enjoy beta testing of SCO OpenServer and
filePro releases.

     I authored several programs: xc is free and widely distribted; it is
a scriptable Unix communications program, rather more flexible than the
classic cu.   Fpkd is a program which deletes unused records in a filePro
database, while preserving existing record headers.  It sold mildly well,
but not well enough to cause me to keep up with changed OSes and changed
filePro releases.

     I was married for seven years in the mid-seventies, with two
step-daughters; one good fallout from that period is my possession of a
three-bedroom apartment with a 750 sq.ft. terrace in a 1932 art-deco
building.  It awakened in me a knack I never knew I had for tending
flowers and tomatoes and apple trees. I just finished installing CAT-5
wiring so that I can work outdoors on my laptop.  My view to the south
is obstructed just in that angle which would have let me see the
now-destroyed WTC towers.

JPR, 5Oct01

     Early in my years on Seventh Avenue, I met Jane Tucker, who worked for
a resident buying office representing various specialty stores across
the country, and then for many years for a chain called Montaldo's.
Tall and blond, she hailed from Hillsboro, Ohio.  The one time I asked
her out on a date, she said she was busy; stupidly arrogant, I took
that as rejection and did not ask her out again.  She went on to marry
someone else in the garment industry.  Eventually we did start seeing
each other, at first quite secretly in Europe, and then just as evasively
in New York.  She went overseas twice a year for business, while I made
it a habit to stop in Paris after skiing one or another of the Alpine
peaks.  We both used the Htel Lotti as our Paris address.

     Jane's marriage lasted a dozen years, and produced a daughter.  Socially
in New York, we were a couple, while Jane was still providing a home for
her child in a brownstone.  It wasn't until that daughter was off at
college that Jane suggested that maybe we should condense two homes into
one.  We married in October of 2002 amidst roses and vines at the home
of one of Jane's clients in Healdsburg, California.

     Jane's specialty stores have been disappearing in the general upheaval
of the fashion industry, and she now also provides personal wardrobe
consultations, as well as apartment redecoration projects.  I continue
to help computer users all over the US, the good news being that
Internet has made it possible for me to do so without leaving my
desk, while the bad news is the same:  I don't have to leave my desk,
sometimes not venturing out for days on end.  I've passed my 77th
birthday having acquired one stent, and still enjoying fine dining and
the NYC Ballet and the NY Philharmonic.  Jane is now in charge of our
plants and trees.

JPR, 20Mar09

Joe Chasan
 Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
 Founded 1988
 Address:
 535 South Broadway
 Suite #215-B
 Hicksville, NY 11801
 (516) 931-4444
 joe@magnatechonline.com
 http://www.magnatechonline.com

 Over 25 Years experience with filePro/Unix

 Mostly custom software.  Support own & software written by others.  Many
 different verticals/industries (a sampling includes service contractors,
 importers, customs brokers, wholesale distribution, manufacturing, retail,
 media, and government agencies as customers.)  filePro and just about
 anything that can be integrated with it.

 Platforms:
 Unix/Linux/Windows

Born in Dominican Republic on January 31, 1968.
Migrated to New York on April, 1985
Married on February of 1989 to my wife Marie E. Lerebours
Have two wonderful children, my daughter Ann-Marie and my son Paul Daniel.

Currently employed by Crane Worldwide Logistics.
Develop custom PHP + MySQL + filePro solutions for a couple of companies.
I am a co-owner of a business venture involving a night club, a steak house and a liquor store.

filePro developer since 1989, SCO Unix mid-level admin, some LINUX (mostly derived from my SCO experience), MS Exchange, PHP, Networking, MS Windows 2K - 2003, XP, HPGL (thanks to Jim Asman), SATO and INTERMEC proprietary programming language(s).

Over the years I have developed many applications. I have developed for the very small mom and pops, and the very large international companies. I have a very strong background developing for the following areas:

Retail, Wholesale, Distribution, Import, Export, Domestic Transportation, Trucking, Warehousing, Inventory Management, Job Costing, Accounting (AR, AP, GL, Payroll, etc.), Web development (PHP + MySQL) and as an integrated front end for filePro based applications.

I own a fully integrated filePro application. I wrote it as a niche application for the floor covering industry but it can be used under any retail, distribution, wholesale environment.

The application includes modules such as Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Job Costing, Commission Control, Accounting (AR, AP, GL, Payroll) with many reports and forms. All modules are fully integrated and filled with features making this a very rich and flexible application.

I wrote the application on SCO UNIX platform but it could be ported over to LINUX and/or WINDOWS. I use some shell scripting so some minor work will be required to replace these but nothing out of this world, in fact, a simple cut and paste or simply remaining the scripts to [name].bat will do the trick for most of them.

I am willing to provide a free copy of my filePro application to any fpTech registered reseller or license owners.

Since the idea is to help find means to expand market and sales for filePro, I will only give a copy to "registered resellers" or "license owners"; after all, you will need filePro to run the application.

I expect nothing in return, this is my token of contribution to fpTech and our anchor development tool filePro. That being said, if one were to hire me for consulting, support, development, well, I guess that would be my reward.

I will provide the full application, source code, shell scripts, user manuals (whatever I have). I will take phone calls or answer email on basic Q&A. Perhaps, this will give birth to an open-source projects in our community.

As an added reward, I would love for the application to retain the name I use IFMS (Integrated Finance Management System).

Tim Barr, CTO
21st Century Appraisals, Inc
1801 Oberlin Rd, Middletown, PA 17057
717-985-0200 x 1131
tim.barr@21appr.com

Kenneth Brody
Verplanck, NY
kenbrody@bestweb.net

     Please note that, although I work for fP Technologies, I am attending as a "private citizen", and not in any official fPTech capacity.

     I have been programming computers since 1971, having started on HP-2000 and IBM-360 systems half a county away, via a 110bps dialup line and an ASR-33 teletype.  (We eventually upgraded to "high speed" Olivetti teleprinters, running at a blazing 300bps.)  My current Internet connection is nearly 200,000 times faster.

     I started working for fPTech's ancestor company, The small Computer Company, in 1981, working on several Profile II Plus add-ons.

     I am currently the senior filePro developer for fPTech.

     There are some scans of some old filePro stuff on my old website:

    http://users.bestweb.net/~kenbrody/oldfp/oldfp.html

     (You can tell it's rather old.  Note the "designed with Netscape 3.0 in mind" logo on the main page.)  Note that the phone number for sales listed in 1984 is still the same number for fPTech's sales line.

     My nicknames include "Mr. filePro", "Tron", and "Daddy".
 

Nancy Palmquist
PO BOX 815
Bethel Park, PA 15102

     filePro programmer since 1980-something.   Projects include web-interfaces to filePro, XML interfaces to filePro for sending and receiving files in XML formats, custom industry packages too numerous to even list.  You can do quite a bit of programming in 27 years or so.

Scott Nelson
Palmdale, CA
Logic Data Systems
www.logicdatasystems.com
661-947-5501

Member of iXorg

Platforms:
SCO OpenServer
SUSE Linux
Windows as clients

Experience:
20 plus years with SCO and filePro
Other expertise:
Accounting knowledge
Unix shell scripting
Kermit scripts
Apache, html, javascript, fPWeb
EDI interfaces with filePro

Accounting package GL, AR, AP, IC, PR, POS, OE
Job costing system
Web Interface to filePro
Credit card using filePro and Monetra on SCO
Mostly custom software.  Support own & software written by others.
Customers include Fashion Jewelry and Parts Mfr/Importer, Food Mfr, Food Importer/Distributor, Engine Remanufacturer, Safety Interlock Mfr. and more unussual small companies.
Touch Screen filePro on Tablet PCs