The IBM U2 products are marketed as 'High performance, scalable information management environments for embedding in vertical applications.' See http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/dbservers.html
IBM has a large reseller or value-added partnerships which they wish to preserve. One of the side-effects is the 'ownership' of a client; it is the resellers not IBM's. One way to manage this is to provide access to the knowledgebase only to the resellers and software houses, as they generate sales and also manage the database problems as it is the application which is being sold, not the database. This is a problem for in-house software development and orphans from software house collapses. This has always been a problem as long as I can remember - 15 years or more. And it is the reason that I would never recommend in-house software development with any U2 products. You will always be flying blind. There was some chat some months back about creating a free virtual image of U2 with some supplied software etc. etc. It must always be remembered that U2 is not open-source or a community built product. It is a proprietary database product owned and developed by IBM. If IBM do not and will not recognize the in-house development and consultant markets, then move on. There are massively larger databases and more in number using MySQL, Oracle and MS-SQL. Other developers seem to be able to use these products and produce reasonable applications. On the other hand, I have found that I can produce and manage a U2 database simpler and cheaper than others; but not because of the MV factor. It is the ability to write complex business rules and processes directly in the one environment (with the database structure) that I find invaluable. But alias, as the increase of BPEL and such high-end tools come available for other database products, even this feature of U2 is starting to wear thin. My $1.22 + tax input. Cheers, David Murray P.S. The direct relationship between BPEL and SB+ is so similar that it is scary, but no development by IBM of BPEL on U2 seems to be on the cards. .learn and do .excel and share -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy Fisher Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:03 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] UniData 7.1 vs. MS SQL 2005 performance Why doesn't IBM allow access to all information that would help users - we've already bought the product? ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
