I see a lot of comments on supporting the software vendors for Oracle and MS SQL Server. These solutions attract organizations and developers because of the level of documentation, training and certification offerings. Unless you plan to create independent solutions that are for very specific solutions, then a mainstream software vendor helps provide a toolset that is not perfect, but extremely feature rich. You can agree to disagree on the usage of the databases, but their size and effect cannot be ignored. Most people from the CF community are probably not looking to create a Java API to connect to a database management system even if it is for free. MySQL is free and offers scaleable solutions that commercial entities take advantage of. ColdFusion recognizes the value of MySQL and provides a method to connect jConnect 3.0 with CFMX 7.02. I think the average developer would choose MySQL over an embeded solution.
I see too many developers caught up in supporting this person versus that person. I have clients from all walks of technology so I cannot discriminate supporting technoloies if I plan to provide a valueable service to my market base. Is open source preferred? I would happily say yes. Will I use the large software vendors products? I would happily say yes as well. If you feel that you are being assimilated by the Borg, then please feel free to rebel. If you want to use all solutions possible to weigh the value of a solution from multiple platforms, then learn more about each product and be more objective on appreciating the value of each solution. If people knew more about embeded databses and were willing to spend the time from the CF community, then I suspect there will be more blog posts about the topic. I have not seen much on this topic. If someone is willing to start a blog series that would explain the benfit and a simple API to integrate the solutions, then I would gladly read. For now, accessing Access, MS SQL, MySQL and Oracle is enough for me on my plate. I have more programs to connect to managed systems that I do development tools. Teddy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251330 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
