So I got an email last week asking if I wouldn't mind allowing a snippet from my " on Stylus Studio and Oxygen -- Suddenly I'm a man with two tool-based love affairs going at once" post from two weeks ago to be used in a future marketing piece for Stylus Studio. I earned a t-shirt out of "the deal" to add to my son's computer industry t-shirt collection :) and I truly meant the comments in which they recently listed as part of their "REAL CUSTOMERS WHO SWITCHED TO STYLUS STUDIO 6" page. I should note that while I do plan to continue use of Stylus Studio past the end of my trial date, I still am very much tied by personal preference and choice to ]]> XML as my primary editor, using Stylus Studio for some very granular and intricate work in which they have built some excellent utilities for.
Extending my view point from that post I honestly believe that these two tools are different enough in focus and feature strength that you can easily justify having them both as mandatory elements in your XML development tool box.
There's one thing that struck me as funny though when visiting this customer page on StylusStudio.com. While the quote that is attributed to me is the seventh one down on the list the first quote listed is actually from me as well...
If you follow their link you will notice the comment came from a November post to XSL-List in which I, how should I say, expressed my feelings of disappointment in Altova for making certain claims regarding their "XSLT 2.0 compatible processor" which if you follow the thread you will notice DaveP properly recognizes the keyword "compatible" as a clever variant to the word "compliant".
Beyond showcasing the quotes (we consultant's need to always be looking for boosters to our positioning statements to clients so while it probably seems like an attempt at "boasting" in reality -- well, I guess its tough to shake the boasting label but for the purpose of increasing ones value in the marketplace a little self-promotion is Ok, right? :D
While you contemplate your feelings on such matters I will quickly take a moment to give both Sync.ro Soft and Data Direct (OxygenXML and Stylus Studio development companies respectively) a bit more air time as they both deserve it for making some pretty fantastic products. And props to both of them for building tools that have no need for clever "disguises" to try and suggest something that they are not. You are what you are and if you're not what you want to be, don't just say you are and hope nobody notices. They will. They always do.
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