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            • May 12, 2005

              Wait, what? You're recommending a competitors product over your own?

            • You know what, I wasn't going to say anything on this but I am so disoriented at the moment by the latest twist in the Data Direct saga I'm hoping that maybe someone can give me some clarification as to whats going on over in DD land...

              Recently Elliotte Rusty Harold posted a question to XML-DEV asking about open source XML editor plugins for Eclipse. Arjan Huijzer responded pointing him to the Web Standard Tools project on the Eclipse project site and I responded regarding the latest offerings from IBM. Johnathon Robie, XQuery Evangelist for Data Direct (if not painfully obvious already Data Direct and Sonic, makers of Stylus Studio, are part of the same organization) followed-up with the following that has me scratching my head and yet, then again, I'm all for it...

              oXygen/> has a commercial plugin that I like for this - they've added XQuery support too. We're usuing their Eclipse plugin for DataDirect XQuery, since a lot of people using XQuery in Java programs seem to be using Eclipse. I don't have much experience with any open source plugins for this, sorry.

              Jonathan

              Now I was always raised to eat my own dogfood, but apparently others were raised differently. Right on. Whatever fills your belly and without a doubt they've chosen the best tool to feast on. But I'm still wondering what in the .... you know what, I don't care. If George is now getting the business of a competitor its only because he deserves it so I'll stop wondering and congratulate George on yet another satisfied customer.

              Do I go as far as suggesting that if Data Direct is using Oxygen that maybe users of Stylus should consider the same? You know what... I'm not even going to push that angle because to be honest Stylus is a good tool with, as far as I know, a satisfied customer base. Which adds just that much more to my bewilderment by such a move.

              If I wasn't suspicious I probably wouldn't be making this post so I guess thats why I am. But then again I don't want to take away from the fact that oXygen kicks a$$. So whats a hacker with a hankering for trashing Data Direct to do??? In a way I guess I already have so I assume I must simply be satisfied with this and move on with my day... But... nevermind...

              To be continued???

            • Posted by m.david : May 12, 2005 03:42 AM GMT

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