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That is the specific thing that is most certainly nonsense in every way. The whole "sector" of free software was created because people found...
Yes, more-or-less that summary has been outlined a couple of times on one or another of the PostgeSQL mailing lists. Quite a bit of curiosity was elicited when MySQL...
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Thanks for the reminder-correction. IIRC, there was some little bitterness over this issue. From what I've read, this is not uncommon when folks take GPL-OSS software and "extend" it with pay-for-use forks-packaging.
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Agree completely. Better summary-details than I could come up with in such a succinct package. Can I quote you?
I have the same questions re: MaxDB and the folks at MySQL as well as the further development of SAPdb by SAP for their ERP-CRM solutions. Why take yourself off the $10,000,000 table for the Fortune 500 because they aren't that interested in yet-another-db-backend?
It will be interesting to see just what comes of the many recent db "donations" to GPL. Still, it's an awfull lot of work just getting familiar with the code. And cross-breeding ???
Have not used PostgeSQL that much, but seems it's coming along rather well. Their appearance on Windows has stirred notice-interest at Firebird re: how to provide UDF "extensions" for backend code. Good to have others out there that keep you on your toes.
regards, prg
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