Re: IUS: Datablades & portability

In article <34325f3a.28218335@gate.idg.no>, Nils.Myklebust@idg.no wrote: > > adw@ovum.com wrote: > > : (As the feature > :is a fairly limited implementation of pointers, its > :presence or absence doesn't actually affect our numerical > :scoring of Universal Server against its competitors). > : > :David Wells > :Ovum > > May be it's too much to ask, but it would be interesting to here what > your numerical scoring of Unversal Server where against its > competitors. Your report, although surely worth the price for many, is > a little on the expensive side for my purposes. > Nils, Unfortunately I can't really do this - the numeric scoring constitutes a significant part (although by no means all) of the value of the report. I and my co-author spent a year researching the report, financed entirely by Ovum. We have to recoup this through sales or (at risk of stating the obvious) we can't continue to research leading edge IT in such depth. My mention of the scores wasn't intended to "dangle" them to try to sell the report - I was trying to reassure any readers of c.d.i who had the report that the scoring would be unaffected by the exact release status of IUS's REF functionality. I do, however, have an article in October's Database Programming and Design which is based on a condensed version of our evaluation of the Oracle 8 Object Option (the full eval runs to 35 pages or so). This may be of interest and illustrates how our evaluation framework works with a real product (although, I know, not the one you really want to hear about). I can say, however, that IUS does well against the O/R functionality of the other market-leading relational products in the majority of our eight evaluation dimensions. David Wells (now slightly embarrassed at having mentioned the scoring at all) Ovum > Nils.Myklebust@idg.no > NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway > My opinions are those of my company > The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet