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To: Shinie who wrote (2130)	1/14/1998 4:26:00 PM
From: Shinie	Respond to of 2428

The excerpts from Mark Hunter's article "Mnchen" in "Centura Pro": Other tidbits that Michael Dietrich heard: -- Earl Stahl disclosed that there were 40 developers working on Centura's three main products, although not all of those are based at Centura's headquarters. Some guests suspected that number was inflated. -- Centura Software spent about $750,000 in 1997 to keep Centura's name prominent in Gartner Group publications, a strategy that Broomfield thinks was a waste. -- Centura's relocation from Menlo Park to Redwood City cost about $2 million. -- Centura admitted that SQLBase had difficulty handling large databases and large numbers of users, and suggested that customers consider Sybase or Oracle for such situations. They announced that they will focus on making SQLBase run well on small and embedded systems. -- The "Replication Studio" in Voyager (SQLBase 7.0) was written in Visual Basic.

To: Shinie who wrote (2130)	1/21/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: Michael W. Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2428

>>I thought you told us you are a distributor of Centura. But from >>another Mark Hunter's article in this "Centura Pro", he claimed you >>are from a German consulting company "fecher GmbH". Cathy, I am shure Mark did not want to waste his publication in telling all the story of our small company - but now you asked...<G> fecher GmbH is a Company owned by me and Eberhard Fecher in Duesseldorf Germany, whereas it is only a part (I think US Business terms should be subsidary) of a bigger company owned by Eberhard Fecher who owns parts of other Fecher-subsidaries in Cities of Rodgau, Dresden, Munich and Hannover in Germany. The Fecher company actually is both strong consulting business and reseller as well as distributor of software. E.g. we're distributing the Building Blocks Class Library for SQLWindows&Centura Worldwide (Actualy since somewhen this year I believe we even own the worldwide rights - but if you wanted to know that for shure someone had to jump in and tell me). We're also doing the European Distribution of Tempest Messenger (www.tempestsoft.com) - a Message oriented Middleware Product. Other companies we're partnering with in various ways are logic works oracle, progress software and Montgormery Assoc. . In Centura Terms we're a synergy partner and what they call here a "competence center". Where "competence center" means - as I was explained - that we belong to the five resellers in germany having sold the product best in 1996. The resellers of the year 1997 are not yet announced - but we hope to find us somewhere around the top five again. Regarding to Marks article - he asked me for my Munich feedback and I gave him some statements on this. As always the knowledge of what mark uses of my words comes to me first when I read centura pro - as mark is very good in making my not so fluent english read better and nicer. I've not yet got my copy of marks article (cause this is still snail mail) but am looking forward to seeing it. What I read from that other posting where you typed in some of my statements from marks article - well if I retranslate that from english to german it would be exactly what I wanted to say <G> - though I never would have been able to express this verbs myself in english. Hope this helps. regards Michael