Re: ANN: Cost effective ThinDAC replacement....

Robert Giesecke wrote:

Dmitry Arefiev [da-soft.com] wrote:


I decided, that I cannot be equally good for All. So decided to
choose - thousands or 40 people. As old-fashioned freeware
programmer I have choosed AnyDAC ... I am sure, that 40 will lost
something, but thousands who used AnyDAC will get something.

Where is the truth ?


40? Did I get this right? This is about 40 people who bought ThinDAC?

So you think RO risk dragging their otherwise excellent reputation in
the mud just for some 40 lousy users? I don't think so.

IMHO, RO partnership with Da-soft is more to meet their customers need
and to gain competitive advantage over the competition. With the
partnership, RO will at least

1. Have an in-memory dataset that is competitive with kbmMemtable - a
competitive dig at C4D
2. Have direct control to a database API - A benefit to their customer
and competitive dig at C4D. AFAIK, C4D doesn't have any direct control
of a database API, although their product kbmMW supports over 30
databases.
3. Gain indirect access to RTC customer base - a competitive dig at RTC.

#3 is what is troubling and disturbing to me. I own ThinDAC and know
that Da-soft owns AnyDAC and ThinDAC, these are two separate products
but share a common code base. As owner of ThinDAC, I can install and
use ThinDAC without installing AnyDAC as a matter of fact, I am using
SQLDirect as my database API with ThinDAC. However, I cannot install or
use ThinDAC without RTC SDK a somewhat competitive product with RO SDK.

Every ThinDAC owner, is RTC customer.

To meet their customer needs and gain competitive advantage over the
competition, RO could have just taken over AnyDAC and let Dmitry do
whatever he wishes with ThinDAC. Again, ThinDAC doesn't add to RO
product portfolio or add any value to their customer base; unless RO is
really after those 40 users to add to their "thousands" customer and
give away potentially $28,000.00 worth of product license in the
process.

As for Dmitry, he can do whatever benefits him financially but could
have handled it in a dignified, straight forward and trusting manner.


Congrats to your 2 new 6-month subscriptions,

Thank you, but it is not all about freebie alone, it is more about
trust, relationship, fair competition and more trust - those have not
been demonstrated in this entire fiasco.

Femi

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