I am working with Cachi and InterSystems on an almost daily basis now. I
have to say, I've come full circle, from looking at them a couple years ago
as being a threat to MV, to now seeing them as being what can keep MV alive
for another generation. The MV emulation within Cachi is very familiar to
anyone who uses Universe, including VOC commands, BASIC, queries,
paragraphs, and so much else.
Their annual Developer Conference (DevCon) was just a couple weeks ago. I
wrote a pre-conference blog and I intend to write a post-conference recap:
removethisNebula-RnD.com/blog
I haven't written the recap yet because 1) we'll see a recap in the
Spectrum E-newsletter very soon, and 2) because i had so much I wanted to
write (so what else is new?) that I wrote a three article series for
Spectrum Magazine and had to get the first article for the May/June issue
done before I did my blog.
The Sales guys are just anxious to ensure that the product is acceptable to
people who are familiar with MV, and they want to understand who is
interested in their software. There's probably a good middleground between
some companies that don't care what your experience is until you send them
a check, and people who are on top of you to guide your experience. Cut
them some slack, ask them to give you some breathing space, and I'm sure
they'll calm down. :)
About price - their model is very "creative". While they do have a base
price for licensing, the model (as I understand it) is to negotiate each
sale, not to quote a flat rate and let you walk away with pricing as the
primary consideration, enticement, or discouragement for or against a sale.
It's an interesting model - play the game and see if you like it, rather
than expecting the normal flat model that everyone else uses. Consider
this, I believe their annual revenue is greater than that for all of the
other MV market licenses combined - there are obviously a lot of companies
out there who appreciate this creative model, so I think we should each
check it out for ourselves.
If you have questions about Cachi, including scalability, security,
performance, etc, I suppose I can serve as a resource for this, and as a
conduit/liaison for anyone who'd like to get familiar with the software.
HTH
Tony Gravagno
Nebula Research and Development
TG@ remove.this.part.pleaseNebula-RnD.com
will wrote:
> The on-line demo of Cache looked good to me. What I didn't like
> the almost immediate sales call after the down load. The bloke
> who called demanded to know everything about my company and its
> products and everything I had done or ever might do in using their
> product and refused to give me a price. Do you have a price for a
> license? Does anyone have it actually performing? Thanks,
> Will
> Nick Cipollina wrote:
>
> We are evaluating Cache. I really like it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick Cipollina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of will
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 1:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [U2] U2 / mv.net
>
> Has there been an evaluation of Cache on this list?
>
> Will
>
> Nick Cipollina wrote:
>
> We are using C#, and that is because we are a C# shop. At the moment
>
> we
>
> are not using mv.Net, although we have evaluated the product. It is a
> nice product.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick Cipollina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George
>
> Hammerle
>
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 11:30 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [U2] U2 / mv.net
>
> Hello Nick,
>
> I think the main reason we are using VB ( vb.NET ) with mv.Net
> is that we have some people with a lot of VB experience but little to
> none C# experience. Which language are you using or planning to use?
>
> And
>
> are you using mv.NET?
>
> Thanks, George
>
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:40:02 -0400
> From: "Nick Cipollina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [U2] U2 / mv.net
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious, how many of you that are using .Net are using VB as
>
> opposed
>
> to C#? And why?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick Cipollina
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