Application Development Survey (OpenInsight 32-Bit)
At 20 APR 2006 03:31:10PM Gerald Lovel wrote:
A survey person called me today. "Do you develop software?" Yep. "Do you use Visual Studio, MS ASP .NET? Borland? C#? Visual Basic?" Nope. "How many development tools do you require to do your job?" Two. OpenInsight, and my ATLAS framework based on OI. "What database technology do you target – MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, …?" A post-relational, multi-dimensional database is integrated with OI. "What operating systems do you target?" Windows and Linux platforms.
"And you do all this with only one development tool?" Yep. "Does anyone else know about this?" Apparently not.
You know, this was a pretty funny conversation.
At 21 APR 2006 03:16PM John Bouley wrote:
What's even funnier is that the person taking the survey knew enough to know something about databases.
At 22 APR 2006 08:38AM Gerald Lovel wrote:
John,
She has her Masters, and taught at U. of Montana (but not with Ted). Not your typical survey person. She actually got what the survey was all about in the general sense.
In a way it's sad that she asked, "Does anyone else know about this?" And I have to answer, practically nobody. I surely wish we could explain OI better to the vast wasteland of application developers.
Gerald
At 24 APR 2006 10:08AM Jim Eagan wrote:
Funny? What's funny about the fact that most of the world doesn't know anything about the multi-value development environment? I see
so many ads for SQL etc but other than the rare posting here NOTHING.
When I try to sell my product everyone asks "is it in ACCESS?"
I'm damned tired of explaining that ACCESS is a skateboard and my product is a 747. Yo anybody hear me?
At 24 APR 2006 11:44AM Richard Hunt wrote:
Same here about "Access". I explain that "Access" is like 4th grade database software, and "OI" is college level.
I often get the sense from them that anything "Microsoft" has to be better for sure!
And that really drives me crazy. I have one potential customer that went the "Access" way. They are calling me about every other month. Their questions are… how does your software handle… and when I explain it they are like… whoa!!! And still they remain with the "Access" software company.
Or I like the standard to fixes… Oh, we just reboot!