Clarion 7

The Aussie Devcon has just completed with tons of demos and information about Clarion 7 and Clarion.net. Bob Z from Soft Velocity gave a couple of demo’s of the power of the new IDE and the new versions of Clarion.

As always Clarionmag have notes and info on the conference. You can read the opening session notes for free. Some of the things that are covered in the article are:

• The new IDE
• Clarion.net and Winforms
• Clarion.net Webapps
• Mobile Apps
• the new dictionary editor
• Data diagrammer
• the infamous appgen - which wasn’t demo’ed as “there is still alot of work to be done to it“

The closing session is behind the paywall, but there are more notes (more of a wrap-up) which is also free to view. Pimpmyclarion.com by Stu has some on-the-ground notes. Not much info yet, but hopefully he will post a couple of decent follow up posts.

Bob Z did say that we will be seeing a Clarion 7 release this year. But what the Devcon showed was that Clarion 7 and Clarion.net is in development, but it also showed that there is a lot of work still to be done, and I still stand by my prediction for the Clarion 7 release date.

It is almost the middle of May, which means that in 5 and a half months since the beginning of 2007, we have seen very little Clarion 7 movement. Yes we have seen some sketchy details on C7 being released in “phases” and that at the end of March, Phase 1 was nearing completion, but that was it.

I have heard a couple of people receiving emails from Soft Velocity’s “sales department”, urging users to buy the subscription plan that will include a Clarion 7 upgrade. But don’t reply and ask for dates, because you ain’t getting any.

Another thing that is slightly upsetting (with regards to C7) is development on C6.3 is still actively happening, with the latest patch 9056 being released on the 5th of May. This only means that SV developers are NOT working on C7 when they are working on C6.3.

My estimated arrival date of Clarion 7 is nowhere near 2007. Based on the vibes coming from SV, I can’t see anything being released within the next couple of months. Which means my estimate is sometime in 2008.

So my estimated Clarion 7 release date is 12 August 2008.

Yes that’s right folks. Stop thinking 2007 is the year of Clarion 7. Rather focus your energy on the arrival date of 2009, and when it arrives on the 12 August 2008, it will have been released 4 months early!