Thanks for the excellent answer, Dawn. I think that we all need to be proactive in promoting the technology in which we have so many years invested. It's effective, intuitive and ... just won't be buried in the onslaught of alphabet soup contenders. I was hoping that IBM would give us a heads up on their plans. Are they looking for salespeople to market MV? I think we have some good ones on this list! Regards, Will in NC Dawn Wolthuis wrote:
On 3/4/06, will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is anyone actively selling mv data base systems? Does IBM have a proactive sales program for the U2 products? What is the forecasted increase (decrease) in mv installations? Will I'm pretty sure we cannot get a complete answer to the last question, but I do have the list of MV companies with links (Wendy -- I did that for you) at http://www.tincat-group.com/mewsings/2006/02/list-of-girls.html All of these would claim to be proactive in their marketing, while I would suggest that there are two to four of them that are not. IBM is definitely both proactive in their marketing and growing. Cache' is about to launch their MV product and I suspect they will be one of the few (joining Revelation, for example) to market direclty to end-customers rather than only through VARs. So I'm hopeful there will be some real advertising in non-MV places where IT folks might actually see them. While IBM's MV space is growing, I don't know if there is a net gain of MV VARS and suspect there is not. I suspect that IBM's growth in the U2 area is due to VAR growth combined, perhaps, with migrations from D3 or other MV products. I also suspect (predict) that the non-SQL-RDBMS databases (those that do not require 1NF and use a two-valued, rather than 3-valued logic, such as U2 and XML dbms's) will grow more in comparison to the growth of RDBMS products in the next five years than they did in the last five. I don't know if that answers your question, but thought I'd give my two cents. -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Tincat Group, Inc. www.tincat-group.com Take and give some delight today! ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
