altSQLite versus Valentina for Rev

[Joel Guillod]

Russlan,

What a good opportunity to explain you some of the reasons why you 
probably miss so many users. My own experience of Valentina has been a 
failure because I have never been able to easily operate Valentina with 
Hypercard/Supercard and more recently with Revolution. Dont reply that 
I should not be an adequate programer, just search the Rev archives to 
understand that many  Revolutionados have made attempts to use 
Valentina with many difficulties and switched to another solution.

Also be aware that altSQLite has been released with the following 
advantages among others:
- many altPlugins are provided for free and has been proven very 
usefull and well polished;
- the altSQLite Demo stack is very well designed and just ready to use 
sample: you open it, it just works and you can see the sample scripts;
- affordable price;
- SQLite is widely recognized by many other developers: see PHP for a 
single instance, not to say the MacOSX Tiger integration.
- last but not least: speed development time. I spend many days failing 
to deal with Valentina user guides where I have been able to create a 
DB and to write error free scripts with altSQLite in just minutes.

Yet there is a problem with altSqlite under MacOSX 10.3.9 which crashes 
Revolution in some circonstances but I am confident that Chipp/Altuit 
will fix that soon. As Revolution developers we know that he is very 
active and reactive. You have proven the opposite. There was (is? I 
didn't check recently) no Revolution sample stack for Valentina. Also 
some arguments in favor of Valentina are not so important for most of 
our applications:
- speed is most often an issue when users have large databases which is 
not the case for most of us;
- price can be an issue: I am not sure that many of us are selling 
their applications to valuate Valentina more than the free Postgres or 
MySQL DBMS;
- Those DBMS are supported by many developers and we dont know what 
would happen to Valentina I you disappear tomorrow. SQLite source code 
is available and free. What a warranty for our data;
- multiusers capability require another process to execute Valentina 
and those DBMS. I dont see any advantages of one over the others if 
you'd like to release an easy installation to users.

My last comment is that competition is good! As developers we really 
thank Altuit to have written the SQLite plugin because this finally 
forces Paradigma Software Inc to seriously watch for the Revolution 
developers to give them the consideration and support they actually 
missed until today. BUT be aware that the time is very short not to 
loose the market today! Dont do war, build tools which prooves you make 
the developers' life easier!

Regards,

JG