Re: Opinions needed about the best "Middleware suite" kbmMW vs. RO\DA

From: Lauchlan M (LMackinnon_at_NOSPAMHotmail.com)
Date: 11/17/03 

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:05:21 +1000

> I'm in the situation to decide about which framework to buy, so please
> provide your expierense about the above, the cons and the pro's about
them.

I evaluated both and think they are both excellent products. I purchased
KbmMW as it was/is an excellent fit for a project that used to be based
around ASTA - it fitted the project for a variety of reasons.

I also intend to further evaluate and probably purchase RO/DA, which I think
is an excellent and well conceived product, although I suspect it might be
optimised for Alessandro's programming philosophies which may at times be
different to mine. <g>.

My attitude is that they are both great tools and it really depends on the
job you want to accomplish. I think support is great for both products, and
both have good ongoing development agendas and fairly active developer
communities.

My advice would be, if you have the time, to download and test both of them.
Ideally make a test project that tries some of the framework you need to
implement out.

With KbmMW get the commercial version (the free one is considerably feature
limited for database oriented work) - I believe you just download it, and
then email Kim to ask for a password, and read the whitepapers on custom
services, query services, and resolving from the KbmMW site.

For RO/DA, I suggest working your way through the various articles on the
RemObjects website.

If you want people to recommend to go for one or the other of these, then
you might like to provide also some general details about the nature of the
project you are involved with.

Also, the products NexusDB (database server) and StreamSec (security, SSL
etc) are a good fit with both products, KbmMW and RO/DA.

HTH

Lauchlan M

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