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General Board / Re: How does EA compare to Describe from Embarcade
« on: April 01, 2003, 07:16:14 pm »
If indeed Jeffrey Bush is an employee of Embarcadero, then as another (previously lurking) competitor of Sparx, I would be appalled if such a competitor would hide behind a Yahoo address, pretending to be a member of the general public, and criticize EA in Sparx own forum.
I know that I would not stoop to criticize a competitor's product in their own forum while using a fake identity and I would hope that Sparx would not do so either. Its just not necessary.
I believe that customers are more respectful of competitors that behave in an honest and respectful manner toward each other and will make their decisions on the merits of each company's offerings .
Like us, and others, Sparx has worked hard to provide an affordable, quality product in a market that is dominated by the likes of Rational. After all, the market is big enough for all of us and there are enough customers with diverse enough needs and budgets to support us all. Lets not forget that not everyone can afford the multi-thousand dollar per license (plus mandatory annual support and training) solutions offered by Rational, etc. So, we try to provide less costly alternatives which we obviously make compromizes and concessions in functionality, interoperability, etc.
However, knowing what I do about Describe's ancestry (Describe was formerly known as GDPro, a product that Embarcadero acquired from a company here in Denver, CO a couple of years ago) I doubt that Embarcadero (assuming they are a reputable company) would condone such behavior by one of their employees.
So, come on Jeff, own up...are you an empoloyee of Embarcadero or not?
Rob,
Visual Object Modelers (Visual UML)
I know that I would not stoop to criticize a competitor's product in their own forum while using a fake identity and I would hope that Sparx would not do so either. Its just not necessary.
I believe that customers are more respectful of competitors that behave in an honest and respectful manner toward each other and will make their decisions on the merits of each company's offerings .
Like us, and others, Sparx has worked hard to provide an affordable, quality product in a market that is dominated by the likes of Rational. After all, the market is big enough for all of us and there are enough customers with diverse enough needs and budgets to support us all. Lets not forget that not everyone can afford the multi-thousand dollar per license (plus mandatory annual support and training) solutions offered by Rational, etc. So, we try to provide less costly alternatives which we obviously make compromizes and concessions in functionality, interoperability, etc.
However, knowing what I do about Describe's ancestry (Describe was formerly known as GDPro, a product that Embarcadero acquired from a company here in Denver, CO a couple of years ago) I doubt that Embarcadero (assuming they are a reputable company) would condone such behavior by one of their employees.
So, come on Jeff, own up...are you an empoloyee of Embarcadero or not?
Rob,
Visual Object Modelers (Visual UML)