RE: [U2] Why Buy (or develop in) UniVerse?

2008-08-13 Thread Anthony Youngman
theory has been simplified too far, with the result that it ends up far more complex than it need be. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Jordan Sent: 13 August 2008 01:18 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Why

RE: [U2] Why Buy (or develop in) UniVerse?

2008-08-13 Thread Brian Leach
David As always, that is a great post. Hit the nail on the head. I think part of the problem is we continue to call UniVerse a database. It isn't - it's an application platform that happens to have a complex storage model behind it. When you compare *application* performance against the three

RE: [U2] Why Buy (or develop in) UniVerse?

2008-08-13 Thread Brian Leach
To add to my post: If you want one single good reason, take a look at the Wrox Press Expert One to One series books by Roger Jennings on database programming. He's a SQL Server and .Net guru. Read his chapters on performance tuning and concurrency management and weep for those guys. And if

Re: [U2] Why Buy (or develop in) UniVerse?

2008-08-12 Thread JPB-U2UG
These questions have come up so many times I'm almost sick of hearing it. I really wish that IBM would get off their duff and get some of these questions answered. I just wonder why they don't run the tests against the other databases. If their afraid to run them against DB2 for fear that their

RE: [U2] Why Buy (or develop in) UniVerse?

2008-08-12 Thread Ray Wurlod
David, Don't forget to invoice IBM when they use this! ;) Regards, Ray (presently in Japan,therefore missing U2 University) - Original Message - From: David Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Why Buy (or develop in) UniVerse? Date: Wed, 13