It all depends who your market is I believe... The strength of our data model is that most smaller sites spend far less on the 'outcome' in the short term AND the long term. As such, the 'Big Boys' don't want to have anything to do with that! What CIO wants to have an operational staff of 5 and $200,000 in hardware and software when they get paid based on staff size and budget? With a 'propertly designed' SQL solution, their operational staff would have to be MUCH larrger -- and not to mention the millions they would need to spend to get the outcome desired. There's little 'down side' while spending other people's money!
For the 'small business' owner - they want to know the 'end-to-end' solution holds up well, and will not require much effort and cost to get the outcome desired. THAT is the target market for U2 -- heck, the whole MVDBMS market -- and as such, I think we can all agree there is PLENTY of work in that realm! So I hate to say 'adios' to those of you who take this as a reason to leave the party -- it happened last time as well -- With the SB/XA and ease of using the Visual Studio U2.NET, I have to think the next "course" at this progressive dinner will probably be as good as, or better than, the last -- thusfar each 'disasterous move' has been a 'Net Plus' for us! And personally, I love my rose-colored glasses -- Amazingly, I've had a better year every year since I started wearing them! I've found you get what you expect -- if you expect good things, they tend to happen... BUT the same is true if you expect bad things! Sorry -- no change provided for my .02... ;-) Have a good week everyone! Get your last minute IBM stuff done!! > > It's okay to wear your rose-colored glasses on if you want > to....It seems that I'm the only naysayer here, and I'm sorry > to be playing the "doom & gloom" role, but IMHO it's reality > - the writing is very clear on the wall to me that U2 cannot > compete with the "big boys". It's even less well equipped to > compete now that IBM has "left the room" and a relatively > unknown company has acquired it. > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
