A little correction--I see that my first sentence made little sense after I edited it incorrectly. I intended to say something like "Because I am no longer a significant user of UniData as I once was, I hesitate to pipe up ..."
--dawn On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Dawn Wolthuis <dw...@tincat-group.com> wrote: > Because I am no longer a significant user of UniData as I once was, I > will pipe up on this question about what I see as the most important > role of the U2UG. When the idea came to me to work with folks to get > this off the ground, my thinking was that it would be useful to have > such an organization to try to get more visibility for MultiValue in > general. Because U2 was under the wing of IBM, if we were going to get > some better visibility as a branch of the DBMS industry, the most > likely resources for such would come from IBM, having more than 70% of > the MV installed base (at least that was a figure I saw at one point, > perhaps even 75%). So, the biggest reason for me was raising the > visibility of what was then relegated to Gartner's "embedded database" > category. > > Now that we have the NoSQL folks out there, I think we should be > playing ball with them, getting MV to be one category of NoSQL or > YesNoSQL for those MV products that do support SQL. Because I now use > Cache' I wish I had not married this organization solely to IBM. At > the time I figured that Revelation and jBASE/mPower were also third > party providers in the U2 space, so that if we built up from U2 to the > entire space, it would not be that difficult. Oddly enough, I now do > not feel I can be part of the U2UG to any great extent simply because > of the angle that initially I selected and the name that our initial > board selected. > > I would like to see the U2UG look in a bigger way at MultiValue > industry affiliations and how our niche of the industry can play ball > and be more visible and figure out how to play with industry > organizations outside of the MV space as well as within. Just my two > cents. --dawn > -- > Dawn M. Wolthuis > > Take and give some delight today > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:13 AM, David Jordan <da...@dacono.com.au> wrote: > <snip> >> >> These are my thoughts to some of the issues raised. >> >> *What do you see as the most important role of the U2UG? >> The U2UG plays a number of important roles to empower users to develop their >> skills, improve their career opportunities, spread the message and enhance >> the U2 products. Some of the issues that I have worked on within the user >> group has included working to open the U2 knowledge base that had been >> previously been restricted to licensed users, in lobbying management in IBM >> and Informix to recognise the U2 technology and issues such as connection >> pooling and better documentation. These were made possible by showing >> solidarity of a passionate group of users. >> > <snip> > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
