I doubt you'd find much disagreement on that point Joe... Unfortunately, I think you are missing the real point...
Ultimately, what's "best" for a company need varies from company to company, and from situation to situation.
For many people, being on 'top of technology' is not a benefit. In fact, it can often introduce major downsides (instability, lack of funding for more pertinent issues, etc..).
For many companies, and many situations, having a high-performance data management engine that is geared for application development is best for the company. Not having to have a large staff of Oracle DBAs on hand to manage the environment is often the best solution.
Understanding the role of various technologies is the beginning of understanding the value in those technologies. For example, you use J2EE as an example. J2EE is a remarkable technology. However, it is absolutely the WRONG choice in any number of situations.
As you should be able to see from the wealth of very intelligent individuals that populate this board, your own companies usage, and millions of other people using the U2 technologies, it has a great deal of value when used correctly and for the purposes it was intended.
It's why it makes perfect sense for a Fortune 100 company to use the U2 products as the foundation of their applications to service various aspects of their business, and why it makes perfect sense for those same companies to use Oracle/DB2 as the foundation of their terabyte-size enterprise DBMS systems. Both decisions are correct, and neither would be the correct choice if switched.
It's why it makes perfect sense for the thousands of mid-size companies to use U2 products, again, as the embedded DB engine to run their business applications.
Gotta compare apples-to-apples, oranges-to-oranges...
Dave
At 12:26 PM 3/29/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> Why not ask the alternate question of why the SQL Server can't handle the > backend?
Simple Reason... "Management Politics".
> No one is saying UV is a truly 'enterprise' class DB.
WE AGREE 100% NOW! I was just trying to say the above.
Going MainStream and staying with BIG THREE is Better for the future of the Company's Needs. BIG THREE has A LOT OF INVESTMENT in R&D and they are constantly on TOP OF TECHNOLOGY!.
E.G. Is ASP.NET similar to Java J2EE? YES... as a matter of fact ASP.NET Copied a lot of the CORE Techniques... but why is ASP.NET just a little more better than Java J2EE? CAUSE: MS Had more money to PUMP into R&D and were able to REFINE some of the Techniques...e.g. Core improvement in RUNTIME ENVIROMENT AND COMPILATION.
I know you are one of the GURU's OF UV System, it nice to hear some agreement on this argument.
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