> From: Daniel Ruckel > Can I convince someone in this group to share their experience/s > converting D3 to UniData?
As someone who uses both platforms I'd have to ask why anyone would want to do such a thing. I support clients and products on both platforms - there's no big difference. As someone who has probably used every MV platform in existence since the early 80's (like many here), I'm telling ya, I don't see anything compelling in a sideways move. Migration is mostly just a huge, very time consuming (months typically), and costly annoyance. So as to experience - yeah, it's a lot of work for no significant purpose. If you have a beef with your VAR, change your support provider. No need to change the DBMS too - that's babies and bathwater... As far as TigerLogic, they had some shaky times some years ago and it cost them some business, but they really straightened out. Management is on the ball and Support is on par with everyone else, for better or worse. I know a number of people made Business decisions in the past to leave Raining Data, but that was because they weren't pleased with pricing or support, not for technical reasons. Those business dynamics have changed. These days I can't see any company really making a sideways move like this because there's nothing That compelling going on in our market right now - it's all just vendors fighting for one another's scraps. That said, InterSystems brings a lot to the table technically and in a business sense, but even they have all but said if you aren't going to really build on their platform, they don't want just another sideways migration - you aren't going to give them anything to brag about unless you really take advantage of what they offer. And the same goes for migration amongst any of the other MV platforms. Which leads to the ultimate (pun intended) question here - Why are you even considering a migration, and why in the world is Unidata even on the list of options? HTH T Feel free to contact me off-list TG@ remove.before.sendingNebula-RnD.com _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
