Re: Strike! for Clipper/Oracle?
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 11:07:37 GMT
Message-ID: <oparker.85.742817252_at_mta.ca>
In article <mfuerst.5_at_cecer.army.mil> mfuerst_at_cecer.army.mil (Michael Fuerst) writes:
>From: mfuerst_at_cecer.army.mil (Michael Fuerst)
>Subject: Re: Strike! for Clipper/Oracle?
>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 17:45:16 GMT
>In article <222n4r$akn_at_news.u.washington.edu> jimh_at_stein.u.washington.edu (Jim Hogan) writes:
>>Anyone have any experience with this product? It's Strike!
>>from Software-Centric in Sacramento, CA.
>>I got some fax info on it. Essentially a lib of SQL-ish
>>functions. They have versions for RDBMSs other than Oracle
>>and say that they're working on implementing as a DLL for
>>OS/2 - Windows.
>>Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has worked with
>>this product.
>>Jim
>
>I received a demo disk from the company. You should do the same. My
>only fear of using the product is that it's a 3 person company (2
>programmers and the dad of one of the programmers handling all the admin),
>and I can't judge the supposrt one might get and how long the company might
>exist.
>
>It does not appear that a good Clipper RDD for ORACLE exists.
>
>If anyone knows of one please post or contact me.
>
>Thanks.
>
>MIchael Fuerst
Now, now. Don't be too judgemental of small businesses (please don't take this as some sort of flame - just a comment). They sometimes have much better support systems than large businesses. I have waited days for support from some of the giants, while getting extremely personal service from single office suppliers of developer tools. It comes down to how propritary their product is, how much it costs and what kind of support they are offering. Could you live on without the promise of constant upgrades. It's a tough call, but you can usually tell a lot about the small company by how easy it is to get them on the phone and how quick they respond to demo requests, etc.
I am biased, however, because I am a small business in terms of full time employees. But you may never know that by the response times we promise for development, upgrade and the like, because that it what I always felt was the hook. Responsiveness, not size. But then I have never been burnt by a small time software company. I am sure if I had I would be a little more cynical.
AFN
:-) owen
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