[sqlite] [ANN] Free Valentina Studio Pro - Please Give Us Feedback on SQLite Support

2010-12-22 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Paradigma Software's Valentina Studio Pro is a powerful creation, analysis
and reporting tool for database developers. With Valentina Studio 4.8, we
added support for SQLite databases. This means the built in features like
Visual SQL Builder, Diagrams, Report printing, and more are available for
use with SQLite databases. It is available on Windows, Mac OS X and in a
preview version on Linux.

For the foreseeable future, you'll be able to use Valentina Studio Pro for
free, though it is possible to purchase (it makes some watermarks on the
reports go away).

We'd really appreciate feedback from developers who regularly work with
SQLite databases so we can make it better. There is a mailing list available
and bug reporting system:

Mailing Lists: http://www.valentina-db.com/en/support/mailing-lists

Bug Reports: http://www.valentina-db.com/bt/

Thanks for any help you can give us and best wishes this holiday season :-)

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server 

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Re: [sqlite] Licensing of SQLIte

2010-04-26 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> I just have some doubts on the licensing issues of SQLite.
> 
>1. Being open-source, is my company liable to post back
>   changes/modifications to
>   SQLite? What are the licensing terms & conditions?
>2. As our present development is on a Linux variant, are there any
>   present
>   feature/functionality that need to be posted back?

You cannot get any freer than the public domain license of SQLite. Many
companies have taken advantage of this to produce their own products based
on the source code.

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RE: [sqlite] Improving performance of SQLite. Anyone heard of Devic eSQL?

2007-12-17 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> Keeping the discussion academic, "hype a product..." is a 
> business model that apparently has been used to at least some 
> degree by a company called Microsoft.  It tends to work 
> because the model permits them such an early lead that even 
> better products have difficulty catching up.
> 
> I do most of my programming in Delphi, a Borland product 
> which remains in my opinion, even in its shadow of former 
> glory state, a far more straightforward and powerful product 
> than Visual Studio.  Borland has always been a technical 
> company, not a market driven one and its flagship product is 
> surviving only because it remains a more well rounded Windows 
> solution than its competition.  However, it is only surviving 
> and is unlikely to actually thrive ever again.

There's room for everyone - just how much room, that's the question (then
mergers and acquisitions).

Penetration isnt always the same based on territory. Delphi enjoyed a
disproportionate amount of influence in Europe, for example. Lack of good
2-byte support plus other market factors also made Asian market penetration
a bit different. Big, well financed companies with a strong lead in North
America can play catch up later if its in their interest.

And we are talking Windows only development here anyway. MS doesn't have
much of a lock on the Linux, Mac OS or Unix markets. While I wouldn't want
to depend 100% on any one of these other markets, being there can make a
significant difference.

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Lynn Fredricks
President
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RE: [sqlite] Improving performance of SQLite. Anyone heard of DeviceSQL?

2007-12-16 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> This also is an anecdote from some time back.  As we were 
> signing a fairly significant software contract with a large 
> organization their manager told us "You guys know nothing 
> about marketing.  Your presentation was unprofessional, no 
> glossy brochures, no audio visuals and we would not have 
> bought except that you were the only ones who convinced us 
> you could do the job".  We just smiled and watched the ink 
> dry while we pondered "where did we go right?".
> 
> The simple truth is that if you hype a product and sell it 
> into an area where it is inadequate your triumph is short 
> lived and the scorn and litigation enduring.  On the other 
> hand if you deliver a solution which works as well, or 
> preferably better, than proposed you have generated raving 
> fans who will buy again and endorse your product to all and 
> sundry.  Which is the better model?

I agree that if its an inadaquate product, the deep stuff you get into is
well deserved (but you clearly connected with someone who did understand the
technical value so it isnt entirely hopeless a situation). I do not see a
choice here - you need great technology and you need just the right
marketing to maximize your own return and push out the limits of what your
company can achieve. Convince both management and engineering. They both
need to be on the same page or else, and I think that is achievable. 

Engineers making all decisions may sound like its sensible but its asking
for a different type of trouble. Years ago I was involved with a large
corporation that dominated a particular market space (about 10 million seats
circa 1996). An engineer solved a problem by using a third party control
that he didn't run by corporate before incorporating into the product. That
engineer did not understand that all portions of the product had to meet
specific criteria in European and Asian markets - that control was totally
incompatible, and the source wasn't available at any price (this was fairly
well spelled out in the EULA after the problem surfaced). The discovery
wasn't made until after North American launch, and late in process when
European and Asian launches were developed. The re-engineering costs and
unexpected delays in those markets had a severe financial impact. Yes, this
is just one instance - but just one of many.

I think the availability of inexpensive overseas development is a wake up
call to engineers in North America and Western Europe that they have to move
to engage management (ie be a part of management). On the other hand,
management that jumps into outsourcing without a good understanding of
architectural goals and architectural management learn to regret it.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
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RE: [sqlite] Improving performance of SQLite. Anyone heard of DeviceSQL?

2007-12-16 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> My intent is  to provide complete detailed technical 
> information about SQLite, including its limitations and 
> faults, and honest comparisons and even recommendations of 
> other products (including, but not limited to DeviceSQL).  My 
> intent is to avoid sophistry, misrepresentation, 
> exaggeration,  and hype.
> This intent is sometimes imperfectly executed, but it is my goal.
> 
> If that means that SQLite is uncompetitive, then so be it.

I wasn't criticizing what you did, only stating that sales people often
target decision makers who are not engineers and its an inevitability in
commercial software sales.

I think SQLite falls out of the norm anyway - there are plenty of commercial
products that incorporate the public domain source code and leverage public
knowledge of SQLite that are totally outside of your control or influence.
With many products, who knows what's been changed anyway? You cant be
responsible for that :-)

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RE: [sqlite] Improving performance of SQLite. Anyone heard of DeviceSQL?

2007-12-14 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> This scenario has played out multiple times.  
> 
> Say what you want about DeviceSQL the product, but one thing 
> is undeniable: their sales presentations are top-notch.  The 
> first remark of yours that I quoted above shows this to be the case.

Yes - but a company that sells technical products has to also do that, too.

> But impressive sales talks do not necessarily translate into 
> impressive products.  In fact, a management-oriented sales 
> presentation, such as provided by Encirq, can be a put-off 
> for technical people.  The engineers and programmers I 
> normally deal with are much more attracted to the droll, 
> just-the-facts type of product that they see and get with 
> SQLite.  Flashly sales talks that are low in technical 
> detail, such as those offered in the past by Encirq (I 
> haven't seen the "webinar") tend to frighten many technical people.

That's true. A lot of those kinds of sales presentations are correctly
targeted at decision makers that make financial decisions. I don't consider
it a bad thing - it's really a necessity to be competitive. The bear in the
woods isnt evil, he's just hungry like the other bears :-)

> When engineers contacted me with help in defending SQLite, it 
> was not because they didn't understand SQLite.  It was 
> because they recognized that their management did not 
> understand SQLite, and that they had no hope of communicating 
> as effectively as the Encirq sales team, and that they were 
> desparate for any kind of help they could get.  Sadly, they 
> got little help from me since I, like they, am hopelessly 
> outclassed by the Encirq sales people when it comes to giving 
> impressive talks.  On no occasion have I told the engineers 
> anything they didn't already know, though I might have helped 
> them to organize their thoughts a little.

I think what you are seeing is evolution of the software industry. It really
isnt necessary for there to be such an extreme split between engineering and
management  - and by evolution I mean that engineering has to adapt to a
tighter relationship with management, or they are destined to have their
roles outsourced. Noone should know the product than its own engineers, and
its those who can bridge that divide that will be running the engineering
and IT departments.

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RE: [sqlite] Improving performance of SQLite. Anyone heard of DeviceSQL?

2007-12-14 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> > August? We start to discuss about DeviceSQL some days ago, or I am 
> > wrong?
> > 
> 
> I have several support customer in Europe who have been 
> visited by the Encirq sales rep there, trying to get them to 
> abandon SQLite in favor of DeviceSQL.  The way this normally 
> happens is that a sales talk is given to the management.  
> Then the management goes to their engineers asking for a 
> comparison of DeviceSQL and SQLite.  The engineers then come 
> to me for help in defending SQLite.
> I respond with a letter outlining the strengths and 
> weaknesses of each product as known to me.  I am always very 
> careful to outline the limitations of my knowledge in these 
> cases and to attempt to give as fair and as balanced of a 
> comparison as I can.
> 
> In one recent episode (prehaps the one that Steve is 
> referring to) my reply was forwarded to the Encirq sales rep. 
>  This provoked a vigorous response from Encirq in which they 
> attempted a point-by-point rebuttal of my letter.

While Im not in the habit of defending the competition, Id like to toss my
2-cents in on this. I don't know anything about DeviceSQL but their
presentation is enough to get my respect :-)

The database market is very mature and if you do not have a set of special
features (in the actual engineering of the product, deployment or in its
licensing) that is compeling to a certain customer segment, you are dead
meat. Understanding those compeling reasons is one part engineering and one
part management. Engineering should understand technical
limitations/advantages and needs to be able to convey them convincingly to
management to the best of their understanding of product strategy. Likewise
management also makes decisions not always based on engineers understanding
or lack of understanding of the direction of the business (let along execs
jockeying against each other ;-)). And no matter how you couch or caveat a
statement, one isnt always present to know that those caveats are also
passed along  -  you may get little difference out the other end between
"God told me..." and "I witnessed it myself."

It seems to me that if the engineers are coming to you to defend their
selection of SQLite, then they didnt know SQLite as well as they should
because - it seems they havent made a very informed choice for using SQLite
(or any db) to begin with. The informed one might not be with the company
any more. But if a sales guy from DeviceSQL can pinpoint the needs of an
organization better than its own engineers, then its even worse (or better
if you are the DeviceSQL sales rep!).

Are you sure your customer is in Europe and not the US federal government?
:-)

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RE: [sqlite] Sqllite As server

2006-02-01 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> >We have an existing Sqlite application which till now was 
> fine running 
> >on single machine. Now we need flexibility of client server 
> model. Is 
> >this possible with Sqlite ? . Or alternatively is it possible to use 
> >Sqlite db file from shared drives.
> 
> You can use SQLRelay from http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net It 
> support SQLite and other databases and several languages and bindings.

There are a lot of commercial products now based on an SQLite engine as
well, but then you have to concern yourself with how they've adapted it to
the network. Just peruse the sub-industry add-on market of your favorite
tool -- Im sure you'll find one (VB, REALbasic, .net, etc).

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