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The rumors in Sofia were that the company was going downhill. This seems to confirm it. I really tried to like their products. Didn't managed. And they flooded the market with half trained "developers" from their academy.
Hmmmm, apparently I'm the only one here with a positive experience. I've used their Windows Phone and Windows 8 components and I really really like them. They are much, much faster than their opensource counterparts, they are very flexible and advanced and Telerik's support is great. I always get answers within 24 hours, and they often provide a complete solution/project with samples.
The rumors in Sofia were that the company was going downhill. This seems to confirm it. I really tried to like their products. Didn't managed. And they flooded the market with half trained "developers" from their academy.
And how exactly is 263M for 10 years "going downhill"?
If I make $1000000/year, that's great. But if it takes me 1000 people to do it, that's less than $100 per person per month.
This is a fascinating move for Progress Software, who seem to have managed decades of survival through the onslaught of SQL and MySQL/Postgres cutting into their market .. and so to see them acquiring Telerik now is really interesting. Progress were, once, one of the major players in the database space (and still are in many vertical markets) so it could really be an interesting development to see them rise again. Co…
They survive because of vendor lockin, too many companies have years or decades of work in to using that system and it would be far too costly to move. If your starting a project from scratch today you are not using progress, Legacy is their only business. They know it, which is why they are buying up companies like this.
Turns out in lieu of essentially a deskspace and maybe wifi they mandate the incubated startups to use their Cloud platform products - aha lockin! This is how shitty enterprises survive. When they can't find new customers, they come to India and tomtom around as evangelists & incubators and other $100 words in self-description.
The rumors in Sofia were that the company was going downhill. This seems to confirm it. I really tried to like their products. Didn't managed. And they flooded the market with half trained "developers" from their academy.
And how exactly is 263M for 10 years "going downhill"?
This is a fascinating move for Progress Software, who seem to have managed decades of survival through the onslaught of SQL and MySQL/Postgres cutting into their market .. and so to see them acquiring Telerik now is really interesting. Progress were, once, one of the major players in the database space (and still are in many vertical markets) so it could really be an interesting development to see them rise again. Co…
I remember being very surprised that in mid-2000's, it didn't automatically optimize a query like "A>B and X=Y". It ended up running A>B first, which pulled in most of a huge table, instead of running X=Y, which was much narrower. I thought it was a basic query optimization heuristic to prioritize equality constraints, so I thought it was unacceptable for an enterprise SQL database in mid-2000's to not have that.
This is a fascinating move for Progress Software, who seem to have managed decades of survival through the onslaught of SQL and MySQL/Postgres cutting into their market .. and so to see them acquiring Telerik now is really interesting. Progress were, once, one of the major players in the database space (and still are in many vertical markets) so it could really be an interesting development to see them rise again. Co…
I remember using the Progress database, 4GL and all, and it was a painful experience. I remember being very surprised that in mid-2000's, it didn't automatically optimize a query like "A>B and X=Y". It ended up running A>B first, which pulled in most of a huge table, instead of running X=Y, which was much narrower. I thought it was a basic query optimization heuristic to prioritize equality constraints, so I thought…
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They survive because of vendor lockin, too many companies have years or decades of work in to using that system and it would be far too costly to move. If your starting a project from scratch today you are not using progress, Legacy is their only business. They know it, which is why they are buying up companies like this.
Bingo! I came across Progress first time this week in a different context (Indian startup scene) - they portray themselves as incubators here ( https://www.progress.com/incubator ). Have a fancy application system et al.. even stress how they don't take any equity. Turns out in lieu of essentially a deskspace and maybe wifi they mandate the incubated startups to use their Cloud platform products - aha lockin! This is…
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And how exactly is 263M for 10 years "going downhill"?
Its called aquihire. Its also one seventh tumblr and rounding error of whatsapp.