Wise words Steve. The development landscape is always being reshaped - it's nice to have a friendly voice (and now a face) in the crowd and to see Witango and R:Base are both still standing on the hill. We may not be at the top of the hill, but we're also not occupying the bottom.
It doesn't matter how big or small you are, you simply have to accept the fact your placement on the hill is always in motion and the only factor you can have control over is the direction you move. And only with considerable combined effort from everyone (Product owners, Partners and Communities) can you decide the direction. My career formula is simple; "Specialize in niche solutions and have strong diversified Partners". Our Conferences showed that we're moving up the hill and the path is narrowing - it's only by working together can we streamline our ascent. One of the high points of the Conference for me was finally getting my hands on a copy of R:Base and Oterro (and making a contribution to Phil and Sophie's Charity in the process - Thanks to Razzak), I've already installed it and done a little experimenting - I'll be knocking on your Email if I need a hand :-). Take care. Cheers... Scott Cadillac http://xml-extra.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] VP, Research and Development Plus International Corp. 604-460-1843 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plusinternational.com Vancouver, BC, Canada Does your company have an Enterprise Information Portal? Check out Salsa at www.plusinternational.com/flash/salsa.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 9:10 PM Subject: Witango-Talk: Witango and R:BASE Conferences > (Posted simultaneously to the R:BASE and Witango list servers) > > Over the past week, we saw two companies with a nearly identical history come together in > Pennsylvania to share talents and resources. It is apparent that these two organizations > also share a promising future together. > > Although R:BASE provides an immensely capable 32-bit SQL compliant, multi-user relational > database engine, the web front end is needed to interactively communicate the results to the > world. Similarly, Witango can bring powerfully capable web solutions to customers in just a > few short weeks, unlike the months or years it takes for competitive products. However, > Witango requires a back end powerhouse of relational technology to provide fully functional, > mission critical, web-deployed solutions. > > Unfortunately, the strength of R:BASE is limited if the world cannot be exposed to the most > powerfully complete relational database engine available on an Intel chip. In the same way, > all the artistry of design and presentation provided in the Witango environment may not be > appreciated as it should without a data powerhouse at its source. The fact is, "beauty is > only skin deep," and technological data-mining leadership is fruitless without an audience. > > For a variety of reasons, some customers cannot launch into the web world right now. For > them, R:BASE 7.0 provides a tremendous tool with a great GUI front end for true Windows > interaction to the R:BASE data engine. It's perfect for people who love desktop > applications and need to produce GUI front ends sharing local data. And, when the time is > right, they will be ready for web deployment by simply adding Witango to their R:BASE data > warehouse. > > The last five days was more than two separate companies sharing hotel costs for their annual > conferences. It was a melding of two families. Until now, there were no complete solutions > available which combine powerful data warehousing with a sophisticated presentation > component without spending more than most IT budgets can afford. Together, Witango and > R:BASE can create comprehensive web-centric database solutions better, faster, and easier > than any other suite of products available today. > > Our competitors will be coming - sooner than you think. The true opportunity we R:BASE and > Witango developers have is that our collective community owns the only competitively priced > set of tools that provide web-centric, mission critical database applications! Your > customers will, one day, come to the realization that their businesses will be at risk if > they don't embrace this type of toolset before their competition does. The question is, > will you be prepared to service them? > > The tools are tremendous and the demand is huge, yet, the supply of a comprehensive suite of > tools to satisfy the demand is almost nonexistent. Opportunity has rarely been this easy to > grasp. The synergy, the vision and the excitement we experienced in Pennsylvania over the > past week is infectious - everyone senses it. Now, it's time to put that good sense into > action. Don't be left behind - embrace this technology and catch the emerging trend. The > future is very bright. Prepare yourself - study, learn, develop - get ready for a great > ride! > > -- > Steve Sweeney > President > Advanced Database Designs > > EMAIL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Telephone (925) 838-8394 > FAX (925) 838-8673 > Cellular (925) 876-3100 > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
