In OSAX, EXLN has the technology to make big inroads in financial markets, but they seem to be giving up without really trying seriously. That does not inspire me with confidence that the new products will be marketed successfully.
They would use these examples to sell ObjectStore, for use in certain industries, correct? Did you ever consider trying to sell them what you developed to use as examples? I'm not a developer so correct me if I'm wrong but don't many of the developed examples that ship with MSFT products come from outside developers?
I'm getting that a lot of your frustration with the company comes from your having chosen to develop applications that use ObjectStore. You must feel that they abandoned you by switching strategies and going to the B2B XML strategy that they are now pursuing. One could argue that they didn't fully pursue the database market effectively, actually I don't think anyone would argue with that, even Goldman. As a developer you must come up against entrenched technologies all the time. I imagine that no one ever gets fired for using ORCL.
I think they had to switch strategies, clearly trying to get the world to switch to an OODB wasn't working. Entrenched technologies don't depart until the moment when they no longer work at all. I don't think that they have abandoned ObjectStore so much as they have thrown it into a Trojan horse of sorts, wrapped it up within their B2B integration products.
I imagine a day when there will be no databases that aren't connected to the Net. There won't be an internal/external and most everything will be inter-company and not just intra-company. It requires a completely different way of looking at a database application.
Anouther company I own is BVSN and if there is one thing that those guys are good at it is selling and growing revenues. In the earnings CC the CEO, Chen, said something that I think applies to any company selling a web based B2B or B2C solution. He said almost nobody sells with live sites and this is the only way to sell what they do. He then listed off about about ten large sites that went up recently. He pretty much said what you are saying, that you market with examples. |
