Good question. Anyone can go and use the adapter from mono (and feel free to), but I went in and looked at that direction myself. I felt code quality was poor and we wanted to build something that was part of the Windows Platform, not linux. As a developer, Linux is philosophically a neat idea, but in the real world where applications must get developed, serious developers with serious clients like to have supported products. As well, on windows (with VS.NET) the push is towards components that are really fast to integrate and use in applications. Mono is just not their yet. I was extremely happy that they were doing .NET for Linux because if they don't the whole platform does not have a prayer against windows. .NET is just way to advanced in comparison to C and other languages. These languages are still primary on Linux.
So, initially I felt the same way, someone could just grab the code from Mono, but then you have the Gunu public license. My product does not have ridiculous (not truly free) restrictions on it like service contracts (all that is is a delayed license fee). The adapter we wrote is royalty free and is for those that still believe capitalism is a very good thing. Also, we want a very well documented component that someone can expect to work with sqlite but also work and interop within the contraints of the ADO.NET specification. Just for the record. I am an ex microsofty! I worked on the visual C++ products and Visual Basic products for Windows CE. But don't think I am by any mean biased for windows. I love competition, I think windows is cool, I think Unix is cool, and I think Linux is cool. I generally enjoy computer technology in all areas. But when it comes down to making the rubber meat the road, putting the food in your kids mouth, Bill Gates is still raining king when it comes to market demand. SO PLEASE DO NOT HAMMER ME BECAUSE "I DON'T HATE MICROSOFT" and I believe the time people put into their products should allow them to profit from them! : - ) Thanks, Allan -----Original Message----- From: Paul Selormey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sqlite] .NET Fully compatible Data Adapter shipping in early November for Sqlite Hello, I see this .NET stuff all the time, but why not just use the SqlLite provider in Mono? Best regards, Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:36 PM Subject: [sqlite] .NET Fully compatible Data Adapter shipping in early November for Sqlite > Hi everyone. Just a heads up. Originally my company was not going to > release our .NET data adapter for .NET but some demand came up for it so we > have professionally packaged it and will be releasing it in early November. > We are writing other apps that need this feature so we went ahead and > invested in the time to build one. > > This is a fully compatible .NET data adapter that is written to spec like > the other data adapters in .NET (ODBC, SqlClient, Oracle, OleDb). It comes > packaged with automated installation, a full documentation online help > system, and samples. Just to make sure, this product is not for devices. > It is for the desktop framework. Eventually we will get to devices! : - ) > > So, if you want your .NET code to portable by the data adapter spec in .NET, > this tool will give the the capability. > > If anyone is interested in this product you can contact me via email for > purchase. > > Thanks, > Allan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
