(People offended by discussion of products by those who sell those products should feel free to delete such commentary. My opinion of software that I use does not get invalidated when I take the next step to "eat my own dogfood" and sell and support software that I like.)
> From: Bill Haskett > Does anyone use mv.NET? Do you have any problems; stability, > connectivity, licensing, etc? A lot of companies do use mv.NET - they can respond here for themselves if they wish. Personally I use it every day for all MV development, and my decision to do so is constantly re-affirmed when I think of the tools I was using in the past. BlueFinity continues to be an excellent business partner and my decision to sell mv.NET as a part of our overall services and solutions offering is also continually reaffirmed. > Is U2.NET a good substitute? I understand they > re-wrote the licensing. What is the U2.NET cost? > Does anyone use U2.NET? At the risk of sounding like I'm disparaging a competing offering, here is my understanding of U2.NET. Corrections are welcome: 1) U2.NET is essentially an old version of mv.NET (a fork). A license to the source was purchased by IBM from BlueFinity. It's essentially v3.2.x (?) frozen in time. 2) It has not progressed in sync with mv.NET to support new features like Solution Objects (code generation of strongly-typed business classes) or the new extended support for Silverlight. No license was purchased by IBM/Rocket for ongoing enhancements or fixes from BlueFinity. 3) Where the same mv.NET software can be used across almost all Pick/MV platforms, U2.NET hase been restricted to operating only with U2. 4) I originally thought and hoped that it would be provided free to the U2 client base. I really wanted to use U2.NET as an alternative to UO.NET and mv.NET for sites where it was better suited. But to my surprise this severely and intentionally limited product (in current features and its future) is being sold to U2 sites at a price comparable to mv.NET itself. I really don't understand what was on their minds when they did all of this but I welcome some encouragement to reconsider using U2.NET in the future. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides related development services remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
