Comments on: AJAX DataGrid Comparison

By: Thomas Fouracc

Thomas Fouracc — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:53:40 +0000

Hello,
I see you mention Nitobi as expensive, I purchased all, I found the grid very good, the only thing that let down the entire collection was the Combomenu, It was very buggy and left me with a bad taste in my mouth with regards to Nitobi products. I also found that Nitobi support can take up to 4 weeks for responce.

I am not debasing Nitobi, only passing an observation.

Regards

Thomas

By: Divid Zhang

Divid Zhang — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:04:12 +0000

sigmagrid http://www.sigmawidgets.com
displaytag http://displaytag.sourceforge.net
eXtremeComponents http://www.extremecomponents.org

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:05:23 +0000

The simplest way I’ve found to generate online xml that can feed your ajax datagrid is using this web app. http://www.simplesa.net

By: Andre’s Blog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-05-23

Andre’s Blog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-05-23 — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:24:24 +0000

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By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:19:26 +0000

Hi Andre, Well first thanks for your interest in my humble opinion! I use Visual Studio for most of my development. For PHP I use JCX Software’s vsPHP plugin which is awesome. For my own personal work, I choose the LAMP/WAMP platform because it has the widest install base and the least hassle. When I’m working for a client, the sky is the limit – I work with about everything – Oracle, MS SQL, Java, C#, etc. So your support for all of those things is nice because I could theoretically learn your product and use it in all of my work.

As far as XML or JSON. hmm… XML is tempting because I can imagine a generic back-end with a replaceable presentation layer. But on a practical level you want the grid to be as responsive as possible. JSON is probably the pragmatic choice.

As far as price, that is a tough question. I think $399 for a component puts you definitely into the corporate price range for developers like myself who would buy it for work. I do like the fact that there is unlimited deployment for that price. I think it’s a fair deal. It just hurts a little to shell out that much cash unless the company is footing the bill.

I think there are two groups of developers you’re filtering out with that price – the freelancers and the OSS guys. You’ll never get OSS guys with a commercial product. If you want to go after the freelancers, though, I think there is a sweet spot around $99. I bet you would see more sales, but your support costs would go up as well. If you can make something work at that price, I think you guys would get a lot more customers.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Andre Charland

Andre Charland — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:17:38 +0000

Thanks Jason. We’ve always felt supporting multiple backends is very important. That’s why we were so excited to get .Net and Cold Fusion support in this fall. We have a PHP backend, what did you think of that? What IDE are you using for development? And I’m guessing it’s MySQL for the DB? I’m also curious since you’re looking for a JavaScript component whether you have a preference for XML or JSON?

Finally, one last question, what would you consider a down to earth price for this type of product?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:41:54 +0000

Hi Andre, Thanks for the message – you guys make a great product! I actually only included links on this page for non .NET products. Though I do use .NET, in this case I’m looking for a PHP solution. So, I didn’t include the ones that only have a .NET version. But, I will check out the companies that you mentioned.

By: Andre Charland

Andre Charland — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:34:02 +0000

Thanks for putting this together and the kind words on the Nitobi Grid. We’ve been working on it for long time:) Just a heads up we’re adding grouping / treeview functionality into our grid, been in the works for a while with some beta customers. Also, we’re releasing a suite early in 2007 which will bring the per component cost down quite a bit for the community.

I’m curious why you haven’t included offerings from Ajax component vendors like Infragistics, Backbase or Telerik?

Do you develop mainly in .Net on the backend?

Thanks!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:52:23 +0000

Hey Thijs, I had actually looked at that one as well and I like their way of thinking a lot. I like any solution where the data is structured and the presentation is separate from that. It seems like this particular code is still in the concept phase as far as I can tell, but I am going to keep my eye on it. Thanks for the comment!

By: Thijs

Thijs — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:36:31 +0000

You might want to try this one: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/08/23/xsldatagrid-xslt-ajax.html

I have not yet got it to work, but it looks promising!