> 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.
Not quite, U2.NET has it's origins in mv.NET but has since been developed on by IBM/Rocket. I understand that Initially the work focussed on making it more performant and on improving the installability of it. It is now a fully fledged Rocket product with a development path of it's own. > 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. Again, not quite. Bluefinity don't develop U2.NET it is a Rocket product with a development path and development team of it's own. It won't develop in sync with mv.NET or with anything else, it is an independent product with it's own development path. > 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. I really don't get this. Land Rover make aftermarket products for Land Rovers, they don't make them for Jeeps. U2 represents the overwhelming majority of the mv market, it would be perverse of them to even consider making their tools work with anything other than U2. What you will get with a Rocket product is something that is designed for and written for U2. As UniVerse and UniData move forwards so the tools move forwards with them, and vice versa. > 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. If you want free then you should be looking at IBM.NET (soon to be renamed), with is an ADO.NET provider with add ins for Visual Studio, including support for SSIS and SSRS, LINQ, Silverlight and support for U2 Automatic Data Encryption. With it, you can access your U2 Data with SQL commands (like select, insert), U2 style access too (U2 Subroutines, unnest, DynArray Class, CALL LIST and SQLExecDirect), or through XML (TOXML, GETXMLSUB, XmlAdapter) and with Object Data access (LINQ to Entity, EDM Model). George Land APT Solutions Ltd U2 UK Distributor _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
