| 6/24/2004 7:51:51 AM |
I've never tried to collect customer testimonials, nor have I ever tried to contact customers, except for the very rare major new feature notice, but I and others would be very interested in hearing some success stories. Feel free to post some here, or at least post a link to one you've written elsewhere. Also, please email me if you don't want a public testimonial but don't mind sharing with other interested parties when the occassion arise. For instance, right now someone is asking for testimonials about any O/R mapper, not just mine, at http://blogs.msdn.com/ramkoth/archive/2003/12/21/44935.aspx -- so feel free to respond there too, and I'll point him to here if people post here for everyone to see.
Thanks, Paul Wilson |
| 6/24/2004 9:40:02 AM |
Hey Paul,
Good read with some good discussion over there. So, I have a testimonial for you. I am in the middle of coding a large web system with WO/RM. We chose WO/RM really for two reasons: (1) it closely imitated OS syntax and goals and thus we would be well on our way to OS competance. (2) Not based on an inheritance model. and heck (3) the price was right.
Knowing the code pretty well now and even sending you a bug fix I feel pretty good about the state of the product and what it allows me to accomplish. It really sped up a lot of the development of the middle tier and would've sped up more if we weren't using sprocs for all inserts, updates and deletes. Which is another good point, that it was flexible enough for sproc usage. Add to this that I like the improvements that I see all the time.
The main problems we have now with the product are lack of joins for queries and the chattiness with the db. The former is really a thorn in my ass but the latter is something that maybe I just have to live with. I've just been used to controlling every db call. I get around the lack of join support but it's clunky and eliminates the paging and sorting.
Keep up the good work, it's a great project!
Regards,
Jason |