From: Jerry Banker > Hummmm, IBM doesn't have market power? Maybe someone should > tell them. On the Fortune 500 IBM is 15 and Microsoft is 44.
(Dead topic for this group?) Despite claims and efforts, "U2" is not "IBM", where "DB2" is. IBM's honorable influence doesn't drive all vendors for every bit of software related to the company. If the U2 SQL server process doesn't process queries like a relational DBMS then "who fixes the issue" becomes a matter of sheer numbers and ROI, not a matter of "we don't comply with IBM therefore we need to make a change". How many U2 sites purchase Crystal Reports and interface them to their U2 platforms? Unfortunately I'm sure there are very few. So CR as a company has no incentive to modify their well-established product to suit an obscure minority. If someone told CR that U2 users have other venues (for fee or low cost) to use their products, I'm sure they would find their cost of a code change is even more unjustified. IBM is only somewhat motivated to investigate the issue and make changes. Customer satisfaction would probably be the biggest drive here - not any mass of U2 users all seeking to use CR. If this were purely a CR issue it would probably be way low on the priority list. But it is in their interest to at least identify what it is in the CR queries that they can't process, and fixing that problem for CR should fix it for other client apps as well. T ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
