*They* don't know what they mean, but we're getting a variance for Perl (supposedly). No such luck for mysql or apache....
--- Lupe Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 2002-10-09 at 18:22:24 -0400, Steve Grazzini wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:43:18PM -0700, Paul wrote: > > > > The company is making us migrate (some baloney about being > legally > > > vulnerable because we're using open source) > > > If they won't let you use open-source tools, then the > > answer is definitely "yes". (Perl is open-source.) > > As are all modules on CPAN. If they really mean this, you will have > to > rewrite in a language that has a closed-source compiler, using only > modules that are not available in source. Do not use any code > examples, > too, just to be sure ... =:-| > > If you want to be sure you are implementing what *they* want, you > better > ask *them* where "Open Source" stops. Steve's point about perl being > open source may be important for your career ;-) (As in > "Career-limiting > move") > > > And migrating from a relational database to LDAP might > > not be as obvious as... oh well. > > Depending on what you do, it may not even be suitable. LDAP organizes > data hierarchically. It hangs attributes off objects. Generally, LDAP > databases are slower than RDBMSes. > > HTH, > Lupe Christoph > -- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | > | Big Misunderstandings #6398: The Titanic was not supposed to be > | > | unsinkable. The designer had a speech impediment. He said: "I have > | > | thith great unthinkable conthept ..." > | __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
