Ion Silvestru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We wrote Richard back in August to correct his misstatements then. He chose > >to ignore the letter. > > August? We start to discuss about DeviceSQL some days ago, or > I am wrong? >
I have several support customer in Europe who have been visited by the Encirq sales rep there, trying to get them to abandon SQLite in favor of DeviceSQL. The way this normally happens is that a sales talk is given to the management. Then the management goes to their engineers asking for a comparison of DeviceSQL and SQLite. The engineers then come to me for help in defending SQLite. I respond with a letter outlining the strengths and weaknesses of each product as known to me. I am always very careful to outline the limitations of my knowledge in these cases and to attempt to give as fair and as balanced of a comparison as I can. In one recent episode (prehaps the one that Steve is referring to) my reply was forwarded to the Encirq sales rep. This provoked a vigorous response from Encirq in which they attempted a point-by-point rebuttal of my letter. Well, maybe it wasn't quite point-by-point. They did attempted to rebut every good thing I said about SQLite and every bad thing I said about DeviceSQL, But they let stand all of the limitations of SQLite that I mentioned, as well as those factors I said were favorable to DeviceSQL. Did I ignore this letter? Yes and no. I did read it. But the overall impression I got from reading it was that the customer can cure cancer and bring about world peace if only they would switch to using DeviceSQL. I tend to discount such information heavily. So, I suppose Steve is correct, in a manner of speaking, in saying that I ignored the letter. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
