Comparation about developer support/services
I studied about developer services offered by main manufactures, and InterSystems is the leader, see:
Better Developer support/services | |||||
Feature | InterSystems | Microsoft | Oracle | IBM | Redhat |
Development Community Web Portal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Discord or twitch developer channel | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook developer channel | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
YouTube and Podcast Channel | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Certification program | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Developer Open IDE Tools | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Newsletter | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Free e-learning courses | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Online product documentation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Free product community edition | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Free product instance in the public cloud | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Free Hands-on e-books | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Developer Community Open source solutions portal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gamified developer community portal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Frequent hackthon competitions | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Redeem prizes from developer participation efforts | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Global Developer event | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Public recognition by developer level | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Meetup groups | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Open source initiatives | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Total: | 19 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 |