Tony, out of curiosity, have you looked at UO.NET's replacement: U2 Toolkit for .NET?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] UniObjects.Net vs Thrid-party Products I'll preface by saying I catch some heat when I advocate some products, because I happen to sell them too. People confuse the cause and effect there. I sell products because I use them - I'm putting my money where my mouth is. I was using them first as a choice, having considered other options just like fellow colleagues, and then I decided that I liked them so much that I would sell them too. When I sell a product like mv.NET, I get feedback from my clients. I pass that back to the up-line developer, we get product changes, and we all win. That's my motivation - to ensure that the products I like stay good. Some people here know that when I decide that I can't rely on a product anymore, I stop advocating it. And with that said, I've been using mv.NET happily for about 8 years now. As Symeon says, mv.NET is a super-set of the free DBMS tools. Comparing them is like comparing water to coffee, apples to apple pie, or radio to TV. You can survive on the former but you'll get much more from the latter. The difference with the software, again echoing Symeon, is that mv.NET doesn't "need" UO.NET or any of its functionality - mv.NET can use telnet or SSH or UO as the basic transport too. IBM saw the value-add of mv.NET compared to UO.NET, and purchased a version of the source to re-brand and sell to U2 sites. I don't think they continued that - their version couldn't keep up with mv.NET itself. The point here is to emphasize the conclusions of the evaluation of their own product. While this doesn't apply to most U2 developers, one of the big advantages of mv.NET is that works for all MV platforms. For third-party developers this is huge because it means reporting tools, communications interfaces, and entire applications can be portable across a wider variety of DBMS products. YMMV Please feel free to contact me for more info. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D sells mv.NET worldwide and provides related development services http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno > From: Symeon Breen > Uniobjects.Net is the base requirement. MV.NET builds on this and > gives you a heap more (tho infact you can use it without > uniobjects.net) > > So it depends if you want simple connectivity to the DB to do commands > and subroutine calls, for which uniobject.net would suffice, > or if you want any of the other fancy stuff on top that MV.NET will give > you ... > From: Perry Taylor > I'm investigating the pros and cons to using UniObjects.Net vs third- > party products such as MV.Net, etc. Anyone care to chime in with your > experiences? _______________________________________________ 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
