George,
I think Dawn's emphasis was on survive, and that doesn't necessarily
mean thrive.
To my ears the Rocket business plan for legacy products sounds more
like running a rest home for no longer wanted technology
They keep it alive as long as there is a profit to be made from licence
and
My understanding of the logic of this is that the U2 people are so excited
about it because it will allow them to invest in product development in a
meaningful way. To describe Rocket as a rest home for no longer wanted
technology is very harsh, what they are is an OEM specialist.
A big part of
George
I'm totally with you on this.
The products have been through several hands, and this is the first time
since the days of VMARK and UniData they haven't been merged/sold to
database vendors with competing products. That has to be a good thing. The
deal is done and we don't have any choice
One point to consider...
IBM owns tons of databases but they only publicly talk about 1: DB2.
Rocket doesn't own any databases. If they want to be in that market, U2
is 100% of their stake. Nothing is certain, but that is encouraging.
- Chuck
Mecki Foerthmann wrote:
George,
I think
If you are trying to see if the value is null, try @NULL.
Brenda L Price
UniVerse Programmer
Rapid Response Team
Market America, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-
boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Hester
Ray,
Well said. The key thing here is that there hasn't been a takeover.
U2 wasn't a company, there were a division. Transfers like this have a
different character - especially in terms of the number of steps they
need to take before they are complete. Assume that there are still
thinks to
I think time will tell whether they will grow the business or do what
was done with Primos when Peritus just provided support for Prime
Computer customers for several years with old Prime Computer personnel.
Out of curiosity, What is the annual revenue stream for U2? Is it
more than
All,
Let's say that U2 is going to a rest home - not my opinion, but let's
follow the path...
If I need new licenses (or, in England, new licences), I can still
buy them in this scenario.
If I need to run the apps I have, nothing changes.
If I need to update my apps, I either need U2
I don't mean to be Ms. Doom Gloom, but I have to disagree with Chuck.
U2 has been headed towards a rest home for years. I've worked for
several end-users as well as a few U2 VAR's over the years, and it's
pretty apparent to me that it's on its way out. I'd really like to look
at this Rocket thing
Customers do come and go, the thing with U2 is that you don't see most of
the customer base because it's an OEM product, most of the customers run
someone's application. That's the market and U2 is becoming just part of
the mix for most VARs. Our application is U2 based but the code is
Has anybody tried running the U2 (UniVerse) Personal Edition
for Linux on Ubuntu ? If so, how is it working ? Are there any
gotcha hiding ?
Barry Rogen
PNY Technologies, Inc.
Senior Programmer/Analyst
(973) 515 - 9700 ext 5327
bro...@pny.com
My constant struggle is trying to get end-users here to tell me what
they want - they always want to tell me what we have - which of course I
already know.
Now that the picture has changed, U2UG has an opportunity to consider
what we want.
I seem to remember some DE tech manual pages having to
Anybody know how much IBM sold it for?
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Like most guys, I relate best to sports analogies. This feels like getting
traded from the Yankees to the Orioles. For those of you across the pond,
think of being transferred from Chelsea to West Ham United.
Whatever direction that Rocket Software takes the product, it will now be more
Charlie Rubeor wrote:
... feels like getting traded from the Yankees to the Orioles. For those of
you across the pond, think of being transferred from Chelsea to West Ham United.
[snip]
No offence was intended to West Ham United...
so offence to Orioles is inferred?
snip
Anybody know how much IBM sold it for?
/snip
30 pieces of silver?
Or perhaps simply some beads and trinkets
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I think offense to the Orioles isn't inferred or implied... but
deserved... :)
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charles
Stevenson
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:30 AM
To: U2 Users List
As A FYI, Rocket Software has posted a
Letter from Andy Youniss on their website.
http://rocketsoftware.com/about/enterprise-software
It appears it addresses some of the concerns voiced here and is
probably a front end to a future announcement regarding the acquisition.
We are interested
I believe this is more in the way of a Happy New Year type message.
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Doug Miller
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:33 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2]
I think the other option for the SWAP statement is the CHANGE function.
e.g.
STATE = CHANGE(STATE, CHAR(128), )
This must be pretty old because the argument order is different than
most everything else.
HTH,
Bill
From: Karen Bessel
I've worked for several end-users as well as a few U2
VAR's over the years, and it's pretty apparent to me
that it's on its way out. ... The three companies that
I have worked for since 2004 have either done away
with U2 already, or are currently in the process of
All,
Just spoke with Susie and she confirmed that DataStage is not coming to
Rocket.
FYI,
Steve O'Neal
Services Sales Leader for U2 in North America,Information
Management Lab Services,IBM Software Group
From:
David Jordan da...@dacono.com.au
To:
U2 Users List
I am running it with Fedora 7. You have to edit the install scripts and
replace 'decompress' with 'gunzip'. There might be some other error
messages coming up and you might have to install some other libraries. I
never write it down when I go through it.
Other than that it runs very nice. It
Thanks Martin. I will be giving it a go it a bit.
Barry Rogen
PNY Technologies, Inc.
Senior Programmer/Analyst
(973) 515 - 9700 ext 5327
bro...@pny.com
-
We are continually faced with great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as
Just to pick up on one point - I am a .net developer but we use u2 as the
data store in a growing business with many new customers every year. It is
more a problem with peoples mindset than a problem with u2 technology
itself, lets home rocket can tackle this head on.
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All,
There is something we can all do to help things move in the right
direction. Now that we've all had a chance to experience or emotions on
this non-trivial issue, we need to focus our energy. The U2-User list
has survived and added value despite all of the ownership changes in the
past.
Not to knock Rocket (Especially now that I guess I am be a dealer of
there). Also I have no history with them
A lot of what all you say as to U2 not evolving enough is true, but part
of the reason for that and problems in the D3, U2 or mult-value world in
general is that almost all the current
I am running it on centos 5.x and like it BUT be aware that there are
some limitations
2 user limit
File sizes have to be under 10,000
But otherwise it runs just fine
dougc
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On
Maybe they will hire apple's marketing dept. and in a release or two
down the line we'll have customers standing in line to buy U2?
They did it with iPhone so I'm sure they can do it with U2
Dougc
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
The iPhone was a progression of proprietary touch technology and combined
supporting technologies and software (stemming from the original
ground-breaking iPod through to the iTouch/iPhone) that did not exist with
other mobile multi-media or cellular phone products. Other makers have been
trying
The UDT.OPTIONS manual explains that when a program does a EXECUTE...
CAPTURING... there is a temporary item created in _PH_ called Z_ followed by
the PID. I have tested this and found it to be true, and the item is
immediately removed after the CAPTURING has read its value.
I have a client on a
I can access MV data from my iPhone today. Sure, it's through the browser,
but it's access nonetheless.
-Kevin
http://www.PrecisOnline.com
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while I agree that marketing cannot totally save every product it sure can't
hurt, I agree that saying
we run on an IBM database
sounds so much better than
we run on a rocket database
at least until rocket becomes (hopefully) a more well known company. To be
perfectly honest my point was
No offense to anyone, though it will likely come off that way.
One of my gripes about this industry is that we've all be doing so much for
so long with so little we've become, as the old saying goes, able to do
everything with anything for nothing. Problem is, our anything is
qualified as
Why can't we just stick with we make your problems go away? Technology is
a commodity. People want solutions.
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Cheater!! Don't you get tired of zooming and scrolling? A native app is
better suited for complex web applications. Safari on the iPhone does an
amazing job with typical web sites, but it's still a major pain to have to
zoom and pan to type into fields all over the page. We're considering a
One thing I have noticed from the GFC, is that management are no longer
impressed by sparkle. They are looking for delivery and some of the market
leaders have a reputation for not delivering, for cost blowouts and failure to
perform to expectations. When times are tight, management are
How about D:\path...\ filling up, even just momentarilly? Are they
monitoring for that?
I don't know UD, but UV has UVTEMP to do something very similar with
CAPTURING.
Could process B get the message you describe, but it's really a
downstream effect of process A, a different process
Like a matter/anti-matter conversion gun? What happens when the problem is
the business procedures and the company still wants you to make it all
better without changing processes? Flawed processes can not be fixed with
software. The effects of their inefficiency can be reduced by streamlining
If it was permissions then it would happen all the time. I would look at a
timing issue. Windows is known to hold on to resources, maybe a sleep
command in the right place could avoid it?
Thanks,
David A. Green
www.dagconsulting.com
(480) 813-1725
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From:
You can take the boy off the farm but you cannot take the farm out of
the boy...
You CAN take a UniVerse and put it into a Rocket and you CAN take a
Rocket and send it into the UniVerse.
--Bill
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From: Doug Chanco
Maybe they will hire apple's marketing dept. and in a
release or two down the line we'll have customers
standing in line to buy U2? They did it with iPhone so
I'm sure they can do it with U2
Actually a key difference here is the mindset of the people
offering the
What do you mean just? For building a new app, they got to the top
of my list a couple of years ago. Now that they (Cache') have a number
of conversions from various mv platforms under their belts, this
change in U2 ownership might prompt a few more folks to think about
migrating, but for the most
Glen
A U2 application just threw SAP out of a site it can and is being done. I
believe there is a case study available of it on the IBM U2 site. The CEO
stated that SAP did not deliver for the cost and this U2 application did.
I would challenge the consultants who recommended SAP to advice
I applaud David's comments - probably because they all happen to
agree with my own views (LOL). I'll add a note that I frequently
see in business magazines and other media: One of the major
features that business owners and IT Managers don't have in their
modern software is the versatility to
So are they not yet free to make an actual announcement or what? Just
curious. --dawn
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Dawn M. Wolthuis
Take and give some delight today
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Hennessey, Mark F.
mark.hennes...@ct.gov wrote:
I believe this is more in the way of a Happy New Year type message.
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