From: Wjhonson > Not sure what you mean by saying that discontinuing support for SB > would make people migrate to U2 ? > > System Builder and U2 have been married since the days of Ardent. > Not all U2 sites use it, I would suggest no more than one third of all U2 > sites have ever user System Builder. > > Maybe you meant that they wanted people to move to .NET and > Uniobjects?
Prior to the SB/U2 marriage, SB wasn't as "monogamous". SB and SB+ were supported on other MV platforms. Ardent or IBM decided that SB+ would not be supported for other databases. It was an obvious effort to compel migrations to supported platforms, now only Universe and Unidata, where end-users would also now be forced to pay for DBMS licenses in addition to SB. Some end-users migrated from their original DBMS just to keep SB, it wasn't any newfound appreciation for U2. Many of these sites don't care about the DBMS at all, they just use whatever their VAR sells them under the application. I'm talking about the sites that had a choice and decided not to play. T _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
