I'll have to disagree with you on this one Tony. As a vendor yourself you would of course think this way. As an end user of the product we would like it all to come from one source. This is the reason that Microsoft has got such a jump on everyone else, they will provide you with all of the tools as well as the database. I'm talking about the harsh reality of things, at one time if you went IBM you went all the way, now it's Microsoft. Companies don't want to deal with several vendors they want one.
Jerry Banker -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Building XML using the UV XDOM API functions Gregor, your comments serve as a testimonial to support my position against using many of these vendor-supplied toolkits. Some of them are OK, but many not. People insist on the DBMS vendors building stuff for them, but then we get the mess that you've described. For this reason I continue to recommend at least consideration for integration with tools that are outside of the DBMS. DBMS vendors should be focusing on making superior databases, not XML, web services, or a lot of this other fluff. People in the open source and commercial markets spend a great deal of time focused on these things, and because of this, their offerings are often much better. So take a look around and weigh other offerings against the built-in functionality. It would be nice to see people here comparing more toolkits - it might save others from feeling like they're stuck with whatever is provided by the DBMS vendors. T _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
